Resizing task bar, etc

[Deborah]

A friend of mine was working on my computer and made
everything smaller so he could have more space. Now, I
can't seem to figure out how to change it back. My task
bar is smaller, the browsers and toolbars are smaller. I
mangaged to get my desktop back to the way it was, but
not the other things. Any pointers would be appreciated.
Deborah

[M. Rajesh]

Hi,

Well there are 2 areas to look into, change the
resolution and the other is to change the size of the
fonts.

Regards

M. Rajesh
..Net and Windows Shell MVP
www.winxpsolution.com

>-----Original Message-----
>A friend of mine was working on my computer and made
>everything smaller so he could have more space. Now, I
>can't seem to figure out how to change it back. My task
>bar is smaller, the browsers and toolbars are smaller.
I
>mangaged to get my desktop back to the way it was, but
>not the other things. Any pointers would be appreciated.
>Deborah
>.
>

[EGR]

Actually, there's a third way.
If you are using an LCD display it may be that the DPI setting was 120 and
your friend changed it to 96.
Righ-click desktop, choose properties, go to the settings tab, click
advanced.
Normal setting is 96 DPI but for LCD monitors with a high native resolution,
you can change it to 120.
Everything then gets bigger without the blobbiness caused by running the
display in a non-native resolution.

[Alex Nichol]

Deborah wrote:

>A friend of mine was working on my computer and made
>everything smaller so he could have more space. Now, I
>can't seem to figure out how to change it back. My task
>bar is smaller, the browsers and toolbars are smaller

Check at Display - Settings, click Advanced and see what setting 'DPI'
is on. That will have a widespread effect - increase it to make things
like Dialogs bigger (they are defined as a size in inches, so if you
make an 'inch' need more pixels they grow)



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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)