KB150352 - MSB Earth: Other Program Windows Are Resized After Using MSB

Article ID: 150352

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth
Microsoft Windows 95

This article was previously published under Q150352

SYMPTOMS

When you quit Magic School Bus Explores the Earth (MSB Earth), you may notice that some of the non-maximized windows of currently running applications are resized or maximized.

RESOLUTION

The following steps describe a workaround for this problem:

Open the Bus Stop Utility for MSB Earth (which is located in the "Bus Help - Earth" Help program in the troubleshooting section).

For information on how to open the Bus Stop Utility for MSB Earth, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
151436 MSB Earth: Where Is the Bus Stop Utility
Click the button marked "Ask whether to change to 640x480" so that a green dot appears on top of the orange button.
Click Exit.
Click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Kids, and then click Magic School Bus - Earth.
Click No when the following message appears:

For better picture quality we recommend that you switch screen resolution to 640 x 480 pixels. Would you like to change screen resolution to 640 x 480 pixels now?

The main program screen will now appear in the center of your monitor, surrounded by a black background. When you quit the program the non- maximized windows of currently running applications will not be resized or maximized.

MORE INFORMATION

This behavior only occurs when running MSB Earth for Windows, version 1.0, on Windows 95. This problem does not occur with the other Magic School Bus titles, or if you are running MSB Earth on Windows 3.1 or 3.11.

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