Oversized text

[Terry K]

Last week, I caught my daughter being click-happy while she was online and since then, we have had oversized text. I have put the magnifier on 1, the text size on smallest and still the text is way too big. It is doing this on both IE and AOL. I think s
he was trying to download some Flash software (like I said...click-happy!).

I have been working with computers for 10 years and usually when this happens, I can do the view>text size>smallest with no problems. I am still learning XP at my own pace. Aside from a manual reformat, what else should I do?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[Malke]

Terry K wrote:

> Last week, I caught my daughter being click-happy while she was online
> and since then, we have had oversized text. I have put the magnifier
> on 1, the text size on smallest and still the text is way too big. It
> is doing this on both IE and AOL. I think she was trying to download
> some Flash software (like I said...click-happy!).
>
> I have been working with computers for 10 years and usually when this
> happens, I can do the view>text size>smallest with no problems. I am
> still learning XP at my own pace. Aside from a manual reformat, what
> else should I do?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated!

The easiest and quickest way to fix this is to do a System Restore to
just before your daughter messed around.

Cheers,

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

[Malvern]

"Terry K" > wrote in message
...
> Last week, I caught my daughter being click-happy while she was online and
since then, we have had oversized text. I have put the magnifier on 1, the
text size on smallest and still the text is way too big. It is doing this
on both IE and AOL. I think she was trying to download some Flash software
(like I said...click-happy!).
>
> I have been working with computers for 10 years and usually when this
happens, I can do the view>text size>smallest with no problems. I am still
learning XP at my own pace. Aside from a manual reformat, what else should
I do?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated!

I had the opposite problem--too small. In your case, open IE, go to Tools >
Internet options... > General tab > Accessibility bar (above "Apply"). See
if "Ignore font sizes specified on webpage" is checkmarked. If so, click on
it to unmark.

Malv

[Ken Blake, MVP]

"Terry K" > wrote in message
...

> Last week, I caught my daughter being click-happy while she was
online and since then, we have had oversized text. I have put
the magnifier on 1, the text size on smallest and still the text
is way too big. It is doing this on both IE and AOL. I think
she was trying to download some Flash software (like I
said...click-happy!).
>
> I have been working with computers for 10 years and usually
when this happens, I can do the view>text size>smallest with no
problems. I am still learning XP at my own pace. Aside from a
manual reformat, what else should I do?


Reformatting is drastic overkill, and is always the wrong
solution for such a problem. It's the wrong solution for almost
any problem.

Do you have a wheel mouse? Try holding down the Ctrl key and
scrolling the wheel. That changes the text size.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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