Windows Vista My Windows will NOT Stay the Size I Set

I like Vista, I really do, but I'm sitting here with 2 computers, side by side. One has Vista Home Premium, the other has Vista Ultimate. Everytime the screensaver comes on the windows change position and size. Both computers. They get small and move left, and I have to drag them around again when I resume. Why does Vista do that? Is there a way to shut that "feature" off? Can I just resume with every window exactly where I left it? And if I can't, why not? Why don't I just shut off the pretty screensaver and let the whole world look at what I'm doing? Yes, I'm getting upset.

I will try any reasonable suggestion. Fire away.
Johanna

 

Johanna,


Wish I could help but I'm very interested in the answers you get.
I'm have the same problem plus the window size and view
changing all the time.

I understand the view(s) will change depending on
something (type folder?) even tho you close it with say,
medium icons, it will open as something else.....

I'll be watching this subject, thanks for posting it.
(beat me to it)
savagcl

 

Does this happen when they are maximized, or just in window mode?

 

I will have a dozen windows open in all different sizes and placed where I want them. I get up for a few minutes and walk away, and when I come back and interrupt the screensaver, all the windows are squished towards the top and to the left and I have to drag them all around again. I use two Vista computers and they both do it. i want the screensaver to come on because I want to be able to step away from my desk and not have someone viewing what I'm doing, but I want the windows to be arranged on the desktop exactly the way I left them when I resume work, and I don't think that's too much to ask from a snazzy OS like Vista.
Johanna

 

Maybe cancel the screensaver, but turn the monitor off? That's even better IMO.

 

The amount of electricity consumed by a monitor rotating pictures to amuse me is nominal. Why won't the windows stay in the same place I left them? Is that really too much to ask?
Johanna