computer screen question

[Okanagan]

My little netbook, about a half size laptop, has kept some control buttons off screen ever since I bought it.  How do I access them?

This week it has gotten worse.  I.e. I have never been able to set my cookie control because the place to click "set" is off the screen.  I spent a half hour on line trying to find out if and how I can scoot the "box" edge back into view on the screen but am apparently too dumb to even frame the question.  What answers I found were too complex for me to have any idea what they were saying.

If a software setting box with a list of options to click is so low that some of the key options are off the bottom edge of the screen, how does a person access them?  (Or if the box is too high off the screen to click the top buttons, or too big to fit on the screen.)

[FinsnFur]

Never had one so I wont be of much help. But I wonder if they use hotkeys, and that way they can keep it off the screen out of the way till you need them.
Where did you get it? Was there any documentation with it?

[Okanagan]

ASUS from Best Buy.   Good idea re documentation.  I just looked in the box it came in and found a few small paper instructions, but all they do is show how to start it the first time.

If I click and hold down the cursor along the top edge of a box, I can drag it higher until the cursor hits the edge of the screen, no farther.  With boxes that extend above and below the edge of the screen, I can't move them up or down, yet the most critical control buttons are off screen, out of sight and access.

[FinsnFur]

http://www.softcity.com/question/creative/hallmark-card-studio/netbook-screen-display/wQzMzQzN

[FinsnFur]

Did that do anything for ya...?

[Okanagan]

Did that do anything for ya...?

Fixed it!  THANK YOU! 

It showed me how to set the screen resolution to a smaller size and immediately the large boxes shrunk to where they fit on the screen. 

How do you find such answers?  It was exactly what I  needed, on a Hallmark Card setting site!!!

[Hawks Feather]

All Hail Geek Jim!          All Hail Geek Jim!          All Hail Geek Jim!          All Hail Geek Jim!          All Hail Geek Jim!

[FinsnFur]

Well, I have learned over the years to search for things by asking exactly what I want to know, instead of trying to figure out how they want me to search it.

For example, I Googled the phrase, "why are my netbook icons hidden?"...something along those lines I cant recall the exact wording I used.
But my theory in doing searches like this has been that there is no way in hell that there is not another human being in the world with the same question, and I'm more then willing to bet they didnt get all technical when they were asking about it on some support forum. And it works...this is the stuff that Google finds. So I try to ask Google questions using the same terms Joe Blow would use.
If I dont find what I want, I depreciate my terminology even more. 

[CCP]

When I read your post I instinctively thought of this post.

http://forum.finsandfur.net/index.php?topic=15774.0

And knew this was your problem and as I read down I seen Jim had answered it. Jim is right Google is your friend even though he fights them..

[FinsnFur]

Jim fights Google