browser fonts too big and background colors disappear

[Jake Communications Link]

We just got an Acer Travelmate 290 laptop with WinXP and
IE6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633 installed. Over the
weekend something happened and now all the fonts are
displayed too big and background colors in table cells
vanish. We thought it was an accessibility issue, but none
of the settings were changed. I have never seen such a
problem in my life.

To recap:
1) Fonts are too big (even when view/text size is at
smallest) and even in buttons.
2) Background images disappear. For instance, on
www.google.ca there should be coloring behind "Web",
"Images", "Groups"... etc. But there isn't.
3) Looking at the support.microsoft.com site, the search
field takes up all the screen height, and so do each
individual character in the display for some reason.

I thought it might have something to do with a custom style
sheet that got corrupted, but we don't use them here. All
style sheet properties get ignored anyway.

I've tried reinstalling IE6 sp1 but because there is a more
recent version the program won't let me. I can't find the
same program version to download. Must be an XP only thing.

Help. I'm using Netscape 7.1 and starting to love it.

-Tony
www.jakethespud.com

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem, it can be fixed by doing a
system restore but i would like to find out what is
causing this problem and how it can be fixed
perminantly / stopped.
and ps, since you have posted your email, be very careful
about opening emails as people love to send virus to
email address posted through this support forum.

Edd.

 

[Spike9458]

I am also having this problem, it started after visiting a particular
website. Almost like I got hijacked ... any way to fix it other than system
restore?

--Jim

 

[Alan Edwards]

Are you saying that View-Text Size does not work for you?

....Alan

 

[Jake Communications Link]

Are you saying that View-Text Size does not work for you?

Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

I'm saying that that is only a temporary fix, and resolves
only the problem of text size, but not background color.
After I posted my message, I figured out how to search
this forum and found a number of people sound like they
experienced the same problem since last weekend. Do you
think this would coincide with an WinXP hotfix or
cumulative security update?

A couple more things I need to try:
1) I didn't know about the IsInstalled value
2) I need to run Spybot Search & Destroy

Will post if any changes. Original reply says complete
system restore usually works. I'll have to try it.

-Tony