Game too big for window

Hi Everyone,
I have a major problem with a majority of my games not fitting onto the screen. This is regardless of whether I run them windowed or full screen. I've contacted the seller/manufacturer of these games and the only advice they gave was making my screen resolution as large as possible or hiding the Dock, both of those suggestions simply don't work, my resolution is correct and I run wit the Dock on the side away from the top and bottom.
The games don't have the usual three buttons up the top, so 'clicking the green button' is not an option.
I also can't resize using the bottom right corner because I can't get to it, and even when I did change a resolution on one game so I cold see the bottom of the windowed screen and not the top the corner was unable to be grabbed to resize it.
Some games have a number of resolutions they can be run in. Changing this has allowed me to run some games windowed, but alas, not the majority of them.
Changing the resolution in System Preferences doesn't help (see above regarding advice from games sellers/manufacturers).
Is there a way to get these games to run in the space available on the screen without the top and bottom of them being unseen? ie something I can do, even if I have to fiddle down at the command prompt or even buy another piece of software that will allow the games to resize???
Cheers,
David

When I tried to get a screen shot of the "about Shockwave" by pressing Alt prt scr the window resized and is working.
Pretty sure pressing alt had nothing to do with it other wise it would have worked yesterday?
The menu disappears when I try to get a screen shot, but this is the properties box.
This is the correct window.
Could Minecraft have something to do with this?
I really appreciate your help.
Best regards,
Dave

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