Altered Font Behavior in Message Windows

Something has changed in my message pop-up windows--the
font has gotten bigger, and frequently forces some of the
message to be truncated. This phenomenon started a couple
of months ago, and I did not overtly do anything to change
it; i.e., what I did, if I caused it, I did
inadvertently. In one case, the pop-up window is expanded
(the contents, not the window size) that some of the
options are pushed off the bottom, and thus cannot be
selected. My base display settings specify "normal" for
font size, and I can't think of anywhere else this could
be set. Please, can anyone help with this? Thanks.

I think you said that your font DPI is set at 96 dpi (normal), if so, go
click on the appearence tab in the Display Properties and change the font
sizes manually - see if this helps.

Louis

"Paul Williams" wrote in message
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Something has changed in my message pop-up windows--the
font has gotten bigger, and frequently forces some of the
message to be truncated. This phenomenon started a couple
of months ago, and I did not overtly do anything to change
it; i.e., what I did, if I caused it, I did
inadvertently. In one case, the pop-up window is expanded
(the contents, not the window size) that some of the
options are pushed off the bottom, and thus cannot be
selected. My base display settings specify "normal" for
font size, and I can't think of anywhere else this could
be set. Please, can anyone help with this? Thanks.

Louis, thanks very much for your help--and so quickly,
too. I changed the DPI to 90% (86DPI) and that did indeed
change the fonts in the message windows to the point that
at least I can now see the whole message, although perhaps
a bit small for my eyes.

The problem with that, however, is that it changes the
text size on EVERYTHING, including such things as the task
bar. I then went into display settings and changed to
large fonts, but that's a bit too big for the task bar,
although not adversely affecting the message windows. Oh
well, I can experiment with that.

What troubles me most, however, is that this happened
without warning, and without overt action or intent on my
part. Clearly, something is wrong somewhere--I did not
originally alter the DPI setting to make everything too
big, so why should I have to alter it to something less
than normal just to get normal operation.

If I may impose so boldly, can you--or anyone--explain to
me how I got into this predicament in the first place? I
am NOT in the habit of monkeying around with things like
this--any customization I do (intentionally) is always
within the bounds of what is normal and done with the
provided tools and options of XP.

Thanks again, Louis, for at least a workaround. Beyond
that, please someone tell me what went wrong in the first
place. I'm always ready to learn!


-----Original Message-----
I think you said that your font DPI is set at 96 dpi
(normal), if so, go
click on the appearence tab in the Display Properties and
change the font
sizes manually - see if this helps.

Louis

"Paul Williams" wrote in message
...
Something has changed in my message pop-up windows--the
font has gotten bigger, and frequently forces some of
the
message to be truncated. This phenomenon started a
couple
of months ago, and I did not overtly do anything to
change
it; i.e., what I did, if I caused it, I did
inadvertently. In one case, the pop-up window is
expanded
(the contents, not the window size) that some of the
options are pushed off the bottom, and thus cannot be
selected. My base display settings specify "normal" for
font size, and I can't think of anywhere else this could
be set. Please, can anyone help with this? Thanks.


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