Sudden appearance of huge icons and text

[maxfindlay]

I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium. Last night, when I switched on my
machine, all the icons on the home screen and the text in (for example)
Outlook and Word were suddenly enormous. The only way I could restore them to
normal size was to turn off the machine, unplug it, wait a few minutes and
then restart the computer. Can anyone tell me why this sudden explosion in
size happened and is there a better way of tackling it (if it happens again)
than unplugging everything? Thanks a lot - Max

 

[Malke]

I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium. Last night, when I switched on my
machine, all the icons on the home screen and the text in (for example)
Outlook and Word were suddenly enormous. The only way I could restore them
to normal size was to turn off the machine, unplug it, wait a few minutes
and then restart the computer. Can anyone tell me why this sudden
explosion in size happened and is there a better way of tackling it (if it
happens again)
than unplugging everything? Thanks a lot - Max

It probably wasn't necessary to unplug the computer, just to reboot. The
error was caused by your video card losing its resolution settings. If it
doesn't happen again, don't worry about it. If it does happen again, either
something you have running is changing the resolution settings (an old game
not really designed for Vista can do this) or the video card is starting to
fail.

Malke

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium. Last night, when I switched on my
machine, all the icons on the home screen and the text in (for example)
Outlook and Word were suddenly enormous. The only way I could restore them to
normal size was to turn off the machine, unplug it, wait a few minutes and
then restart the computer. Can anyone tell me why this sudden explosion in
size happened and is there a better way of tackling it (if it happens again)
than unplugging everything? Thanks a lot - Max

What you are calling an "explosion in size" was almost certainly the
monitor's running at a lower resolution that what it had been set at.
Why it happened, and why restarting fixed it, I don't know.

 

[brummyfan]

I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium. Last night, when I switched on my
machine, all the icons on the home screen and the text in (for example)
Outlook and Word were suddenly enormous. The only way I could restore them to
normal size was to turn off the machine, unplug it, wait a few minutes and
then restart the computer. Can anyone tell me why this sudden explosion in
size happened and is there a better way of tackling it (if it happens again)
than unplugging everything? Thanks a lot - Max

This Tutorial may help you:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html