I tried out a few accessibility settings a while back (XP, sp2)
They really didn't work for me at all. Everything was out of proportion.
I promptly reset the accessibility settings by making sure that
everything in the Accessibility Control Panel entry was unticked.
This didn't really revert the settings though, so I ended up going into
the Advanced Settings in Appearance and manually changing all the items
to the size I wanted.

This succeded with one exception: Quicklaunch and Startbar icons are
2-3 times their normal size at startup! The only way to fix this is to
change 'theme' in Display Properties, kill explorer and then start it
again. It really irritates me.

I curse my stupid idea of trying out these accessibility settings since
there doesn't seem to be a good way of completely switching them off. I
thought I knew XP inside out, but these settings are unchartered
territory for me. Maybe there is another setting hidden away somewhere.
I am hoping that somebody reading this will know more about these
settings than I do.

Surely I've got to be able to get rid of these supersized icons somehow!

I have customised my quick launch "just so" and the mega-sized icons
ruin my layout completely.
Hope you can help!

Johanna wrote:
> I tried out a few accessibility settings a while back (XP, sp2)
> They really didn't work for me at all. Everything was out of proportion.
> I promptly reset the accessibility settings by making sure that
> everything in the Accessibility Control Panel entry was unticked.
> This didn't really revert the settings though, so I ended up going into
> the Advanced Settings in Appearance and manually changing all the items
> to the size I wanted.
>
> This succeded with one exception: Quicklaunch and Startbar icons are
> 2-3 times their normal size at startup! The only way to fix this is to
> change 'theme' in Display Properties, kill explorer and then start it
> again. It really irritates me.
>
> I curse my stupid idea of trying out these accessibility settings since
> there doesn't seem to be a good way of completely switching them off. I
> thought I knew XP inside out, but these settings are unchartered
> territory for me. Maybe there is another setting hidden away somewhere.
> I am hoping that somebody reading this will know more about these
> settings than I do.
>
> Surely I've got to be able to get rid of these supersized icons somehow!
>
> I have customised my quick launch "just so" and the mega-sized icons
> ruin my layout completely.
> Hope you can help!

This might mess it up again.. try adding the accessibility options
again, then remove them. Maybe they'll "take" this time.

Have you tried a Google Groups search for similar archived postings?
Maybe touch up the parameters of this search:

http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...ze&qt_s=Search

--
Joe =o)