I recently noticed, that one of my computers had big white resize handles at the start and the end of each clip in the timeline. It seems it's a rather new feature, because I had never seen it before - and I didn't really like them. So I searched and finally found a way to turn them off and thought it's a good idea to share that with all of you.
If you want to turn these big resize handles on/off, just edit this registry key:
Path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NCH Software\VideoPad\Software
Value: SVar
Data: Change or add this: "VIDEOPADResizeHandlesoff" (turn off) or "VIDEOPADResizeHandleson" (turn on).