How to adjust certain icon and font sizes

[Craig Schiller]

Hi all -

Just added a new monitor with much higher resolution. I've been able to
make the desktop icons and captions larger (via
Desktop/properties/appearance/advanced), but not the icons and fonts in
the quick launch and taskbar. Also, the font size of web pages in IE7,
and things like the message window in Netscape Communicator are still
really small, despite the fact that I've also changed the DPI setting to
120.

How can I make the icons and fonts larger in these areas?

Thanks in advance.

Craig

 

[Twayne]

Hi all -

Just added a new monitor with much higher resolution. I've been able
to make the desktop icons and captions larger (via
Desktop/properties/appearance/advanced), but not the icons and fonts
in the quick launch and taskbar. Also, the font size of web pages in
IE7, and things like the message window in Netscape Communicator are
still really small, despite the fact that I've also changed the DPI
setting to 120.

How can I make the icons and fonts larger in these areas?

Thanks in advance.

Craig

Quicklaunch has its own selector: Right click an open area in QL, choose
Properties, Start Menu and Customize. There, remove the tick from "Use
small icons ... " .

In IE 7 you can set the text size; see html & plain text settings.
Or set the magnification higher when you need it.

Or try choosing the next lower resolution if the monitor will accept it.
Lower resolutions run a tad faster, too.

I don't know about the others. IMO the best solution is to bring down
the resolution. If it's a wide-screen, be sure to choose a wide-screen
resolution or the screen will look stretched or not fill the whole
screen.

Be sure all your video card settings are right for the monitor and you
might have to fine tune it or the monitor controls themselves to get a
perfect screen alignment left/right top/bottom.

Please don't post in HTML; use Plain Text instead.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Twayne]

Well, they're different for different people. In my case when I
Reply, I get interrupted by a message saying I'm about to send and
HTML mail and newsgroups don't like that, and do I really want to? I
also have visual problems and HTML over-rides my client settings,
often making the text too small for me to read easily.
Other newsreaders, especially the older types, cannot render HTML.
Instead of seeing the intended text, the reader sees a mess of HTML
tags and formats making it very hard to read:

<DIV><SPAN class=q1><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=q1><FONT size=2>Other newsreaders, especially the older
types,
cannot render HTML. Instead of seeing the intended text, the reader sees
a mess
of HTML tags and formats making it very hard to read.&nbsp; </FONT>It'll
look
something like this; <STRONG>try</STRONG> to picture reading very much
of
<U>THAT</U>?&nbsp; </DIV>

People with readers that don't render HTML often won't even look at an
HTML message. Fortunately, there aren't a lot of those kind of readers
still around, but there are some.
Another reason is the size of the files for HTML vs Plain Text. With
Plain TExt it's all 7-bit ASCII but with HTML it's 8-bit ASCII plus a
whole slew of controls and formatting marks.
You can find a lot more information by searching at wikipedia.com for
netiquette and related subjects if you're interested. The RFCs and
FYIs, the "rules of the road" for the internet also all still suggest
using Plain Text only for newsgroups.
Not all newsgroups require it, but most will ask you to refrain from
posting in HTML.


Cheers,

Twayne

 

[Craig Schiller]

Twayne -

Thanks for your response. Okay, I understand the HTML objection.

Could you please respond to my other questions?

Thanks in advance.

Craig