I wondered about that; I had cleaned Poser off my laptop once I got the desktop set up, so installed Poser back to it this morning. There were legacy prefs still on the system, so I ticked the box to use default prefs. Opened the program and sure enough, the param fields open where they are supposed to. Tried the same on the desktop, and no go. I even over wrote the program and ticked the default prefs box rather than existing prefs, and still the param field shows up dead centre of the monitor.

This leaves me thinking there are two possibilities; one is that Poser prefs cascade through multiple installations. I still have PP2010 because it runs .pyc scripts and some vendors haven't updated their stuff. The other option is that something about Poser doesn't agree with the configuration of my machine (it doesn't happen in any other software).

I'd really rather not have to delete multiple Poser installations and reinstall and reset prefs to suit my workflow only to find it is some quirk of the software/hardware interface...