Dialogue boxes are too large to see...

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Justin Barnett

I've had this problem for some time, and dealt with it, but it's getting
more and more annoying, and I'm ready to fix it. A handful of dialogue
boxes are displaying so large that the entirety of them can't be seen.
(Image available http://www.clarkson.edu/~barnetja/images/screenshot.jpg)
As per the Printer Properties box shown there. Now, it's not all boxes, but
it's enough of them that it makes editing a number of settings nearly
impossible. I'd prefer *not* to reinstall Windows, but I'm running a little
dry on other ideas. I've searched through the Knowledge Database - came up
with nada - and ran some Google searches as well. No luck. Anyone have any
ideas?

Thanks in advance.
 
Try this - it may be the problem.
Right click on an open area of Desktop.
Click Settings.
Click Advanced.
Set the DPI to 96 (if it is not).
 
Thanks. It *was* set to 96 DPI, but I dropped it down to 72 anyway. After
a reboot, everything *else* was too bloody small, but the oversized windows
displayed correctly. Moved it back up to 96 - truth be told, I expected it
to go back to the mess it was before - and now everything's the right size
again, including the distorted dialogue boxes. This is good.
 
Glad you got it fixed, Justin

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Steve C. Ray

Justin Barnett said:
Thanks. It *was* set to 96 DPI, but I dropped it down to 72 anyway. After
a reboot, everything *else* was too bloody small, but the oversized windows
displayed correctly. Moved it back up to 96 - truth be told, I expected it
to go back to the mess it was before - and now everything's the right size
again, including the distorted dialogue boxes. This is good.
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