VS 7 SE - No Menu Bar

danyost · Post by **danyost** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:35 pm

I finally got around to installing VS 7SE, which came with a mini-DV cam I bought 3 years ago. When I open VS, I get no menu bar. If I enlarge the preview window, then the menu bar appears, but is grayed out. Everything looks OK when I go back to the 'normal' view, but the menu bar does not work. Minimizing and restoring the VS window results in the menu bar being MIA again. I have un-installed and reinstalled several times to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Dan

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:03 pm

What is your monitor resolution? VS will only show properly if you use the minimum screen resolution needed for it. I admit with some embarrassment that I cannot recall what that was with VS7. I am away from home at the moment where I still have the box which came with VS7, and which has this little snippet of information on it...

Hopefully someone else will come up with it...

I also see you have not filled in your system information. However, if you have Vista installed, you need to be aware that VS7 will certainly not work with that...

danyost · Post by **danyost** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:52 am

Thank you very much Ken. I am running at 1280x1024 on XP Home. It appears that it does not like my task bar at the top of the monitor, auto-hiding or moving it to the bottom resolves the issue.

Thank you,
Dan