Magnifier

[Terry Pinnell]

I've just used the built in Magnifier tool. However, it has what
strikes me as a serious flaw: it doesn't restore the screen to its
full height after exit. So all windows have to be resized - a PITA.

Or am I missing some basic point please?

 

[VanguardLH]

I've just used the built in Magnifier tool. However, it has what
strikes me as a serious flaw: it doesn't restore the screen to its
full height after exit. So all windows have to be resized - a PITA.

Or am I missing some basic point please?

Works okay on mine. When I exit the Magnifier, the screen is the prior
(normal) size, fits the monitor, and the windows are the same. In fact,
windows aren't changed in size. What happens is the screen size is
increased which means it is bigger than the monitor so moving the cursor
around scrolls the screen within the portal of the monitor's size.

My guess is your video driver or monitor has a problem with changes in
screen resolution. Have you gone through the various supported
resolutions of the screen to make sure the video driver is sizing each
resolution to the size of the monitor? Is it an LCD monitor or an old
CRT monitor?

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Works okay on mine. When I exit the Magnifier, the screen is the prior
(normal) size, fits the monitor, and the windows are the same. In fact,
windows aren't changed in size. What happens is the screen size is
increased which means it is bigger than the monitor so moving the cursor
around scrolls the screen within the portal of the monitor's size.

My guess is your video driver or monitor has a problem with changes in
screen resolution. Have you gone through the various supported
resolutions of the screen to make sure the video driver is sizing each
resolution to the size of the monitor? Is it an LCD monitor or an old
CRT monitor?

Thanks both.

Zo: Bingo, thanks! I had started Magnifier by executing Magnifier.exe.
It seems that's the explanation, because on running it via Utility
Manager (Win+U), the behaviour is now correct.

Think I last ran Utility Manager years ago to test Narrator.