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"Some Start menu items can't be displayed" balloon is misaligned

Submitted by nyp on March 13, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug

Try this: Set the number of recent programs to display to a high number and then open the Start menu. The balloon is misaligned.
Also, the balloon seems a little too wide...

Align it properly.
Make a line break in the middle of the message.

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Not fixed

Discussion (4 comments)

nyp wrote on March 13, 2009, 3:16pm

This is how Vista did it:
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3867/toomanystartmenuitemsvi.png

Both are wrong anyway but at least Vista's balloon is more comfortable to read.

Indrek wrote on March 13, 2009, 7:03pm

Agreed. Split that text onto multiple lines.

+1

nyp wrote on March 14, 2009, 7:52am

And Windows XP did it perfectly:
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3347/someitemscannotbeshown.png

nyp wrote on March 17, 2009, 2:47pm

It seems this balloon is removed in build 7057, though I need more testing.

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