Magnifier won't open

[Richard]

Hi All,

I was a little sloppy typing last week and caused the magnifier to
open. Then I had trouble getting rid of. Somehow, I found some way
to set an option to have it never appear again and finally got it to
close.

Now, I think I'd like use it. So I've got two questions:

1. How do I re-enable the magnifier?

2. How can I set a hot-key to open it regardless of current context?

I did look at WinXP-Pro/SP2's Help, but I don't think it covered
either of these issues. If it did, I need a remedial course in
reading

Thanks in Advance for any suggestions.

 

[Elmo]

Hi All,

I was a little sloppy typing last week and caused the magnifier to
open. Then I had trouble getting rid of. Somehow, I found some way
to set an option to have it never appear again and finally got it to
close.

Now, I think I'd like use it. So I've got two questions:

1. How do I re-enable the magnifier?

2. How can I set a hot-key to open it regardless of current context?

I did look at WinXP-Pro/SP2's Help, but I don't think it covered
either of these issues. If it did, I need a remedial course in
reading

Thanks in Advance for any suggestions.

It's a program in Start Menu, All Programs, Accessories, Accessibility,
Magnifier. It's shortcut reads:

%SystemRoot%\system32\magnify.exe

If you deleted its shortcut, right-click the file, click Send To:
Desktop (Create Shortcut). Then open the shortcut Properties and create
a key combination to run the shortcut.

 

[Ayush]

Replied to [Elmo]s message :

It's a program in Start Menu, All Programs, Accessories, Accessibility,
Magnifier. It's shortcut reads:

%SystemRoot%\system32\magnify.exe

If you deleted its shortcut, right-click the file, click Send To:
Desktop (Create Shortcut). Then open the shortcut Properties and create
a key combination to run the shortcut.

And after that, set the hotkey by right clicking the shortcut > Properties

Shortcut Key:

Good Luck, Ayush.

 

[Richard]

Hi Folks,

Thanks for your replies. I've got everything working, except that
previously I had a "magnifying glass" following the mouse cursor.
Now, the magnifier occupies the top of the screen after pushing down
the screen's content, thus obscuring the bottom portion.

None of the options I tried seem to restore the magnifying glass. Did
I miss something among the options, or is there some other step I need
to take to restore that feature.

Again, thank you both for your excellent advice.

Regards,
Richard

 

[Elmo]

Hi Folks,

Thanks for your replies. I've got everything working, except that
previously I had a "magnifying glass" following the mouse cursor.
Now, the magnifier occupies the top of the screen after pushing down
the screen's content, thus obscuring the bottom portion.

None of the options I tried seem to restore the magnifying glass. Did
I miss something among the options, or is there some other step I need
to take to restore that feature.

Again, thank you both for your excellent advice.

Regards,
Richard

That's a different utility with the magnifying glass. A few programs
that will do that are mentioned in this thread. I doubt either of these
are the program you had in mind, though, the second one, "Magnifying
Glass:" seems to work nicely from the screenshots.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt....glass+xp+pointer&rnum=8&#doc_1499b7bb330a891c

 

[Richard]

Hi Joe,

That's a different utility with the magnifying glass.

Could be, though I don't remember ever installing anything related to
accessibility. I don't even know what I did to get it to pop up last
week. All I remember is it took me perhaps 15 minutes to get rid of
it, and in the process I un-checked some option somewhere.

"Magnifying Glass" seems to work nicely from the screen-shots.

Magnifying Glass is pretty nice, but the price I'd have to pay is
reduce from 32-bit color to 16 in order to get adequate performance.
So even though it's free, it's still too expensive I may try
out some other utilities mentioned in site whose link you provided.

Thanks, again, for the help.

Best wishes,
Richard