Dialogs drifting off screen

Hello,

When working in Microstation for any significant length time (more than an hour), dialog boxes start to drift off screen.  For instance, the drop down for selecting element colors will initially open directly beneath the colors button, but over time, will open a few pixels to the right, and move further right each time I open it it.  Eventually, it drifts off screen, and locks the program because I cannot select a color or otherwise dismiss the box.  This has occurred for several different tools, including the scales dialog, wordprocessor dialog, the spellcheck dialog opened from within the word processor, etc. I have lost work several times due to having to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to close Microstation when a dialog box gets lost off screen (the lost dialog apparently block autosaving edits).

Is there any setting that can prevent this from happening, or reset where boxes open (short of restarting Microstation several times a). Is there at least a way to force the offscreen dialog to close so that I can save my work before closing and restarting?

 I am using:

"Microstation V8i (SELECTseries 4)"

Memory Statistics:

Element: 43.7M, 405 Blocks
Available: 9853M (Physical), 2132M (Virtual)
System: 16265M (Physical), 4096M (Virtual)
Free Limits: 50.0M (Physical), 150M (Virtual) [MS_MEMORY_FREELIMIT]
NOTE: Unable to use all of the memory in your system because current user does not have "Lock Pages in Memory" privilege. See Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Local Security Policy>User Rights Assignment.

Computer:

Windows 10 Enterprise

Intel Core i7-8650U CPU @1.9 GHz 2.11 GHz, 64 bit x64

16.0 GB (15.9 available)

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  • I'm not having this problem at the moment...but I've seen all sorts of unexplainable weirdness when the user preferences get some bad data.

    Look for your ...docking.xml file. Deleting that will nuke all of your dialog docking preferences, but it may "reset" your tool boxes. You might be able to delete it while Microstation is still running, and it may "regenerate" if you Close your drawing (not Exit).

    This is just a guess...unproven and untested by me (because I can't test a solution to a problem I'm not having).

    That is a weird one, though. I've used SS4 for years, and never sen this. It makes me think there's something special with your system.

    If it's not your preferences, have you checked to see if your display driver is up to date, or if it's gotten some kind of update you didn't know about?

    MaryB

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