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Awhile back, I asked a question on window sizes where, if I
went to support.microsoft.anything, I got a screen size
about 20' x 40' (OK, so I exaggerate!) where only a tiny
part of a single letter or character would fit on the screen
at any one time.
Someone, and I apologize for forgetting who, said to
check out the Accessibility settings, which I did, and I
reported back that the problem was fixed! But, uhhh, well,
I was on the wrong compute at that time, so yes, indeed, it
did work fine but on the WRONG computer where it wasn't
needed!
Well, I finally got around to trying the fix on
the -correct- computer, the one that actually had the
problem! It still didn't work, BUT, it was "different", so
the advice, I figured, still might be valid, just not
perfectly targetted becauswe of the way I explained
something.
ANYway, it's fixed now: I turned off the High Contrast
in the Accessibility Options, and voila! There ,finally,
was my properly sized screen.
1. My sincere thanks to whoever it was who helped me. I do
appreciate it.
2. Does anyone understand WHY setting the accessibility
High Contrast to ON would cause support.microsoft pages
(only) to display in such an unusable manner? Other MS
pages, links, etc. ALL displayed fine with the exception of
support. pages. And naturally any other web site was fine
too.
Why would setting HIGH CONTRAST to ON have an effect like
that? NBD, but I am the curious type, esp when I know
enough to be dangerous (and confused by) events such as
this. Inquiring minds want to know <g>.
I'm also kind of curious if I should report this
somewhere at MS as a bug, or is it my system somehow? All
other Accessibility settings were off except the High
Contrast. And, it's repeable. I can create it at will on
my laptop, which is using XP Home, fully updated.
Thanks, & have a buncha nice days! NOW I can read KB
articles again! I'm old, but I still love to learn new
things.
Pop
went to support.microsoft.anything, I got a screen size
about 20' x 40' (OK, so I exaggerate!) where only a tiny
part of a single letter or character would fit on the screen
at any one time.
Someone, and I apologize for forgetting who, said to
check out the Accessibility settings, which I did, and I
reported back that the problem was fixed! But, uhhh, well,
I was on the wrong compute at that time, so yes, indeed, it
did work fine but on the WRONG computer where it wasn't
needed!
Well, I finally got around to trying the fix on
the -correct- computer, the one that actually had the
problem! It still didn't work, BUT, it was "different", so
the advice, I figured, still might be valid, just not
perfectly targetted becauswe of the way I explained
something.
ANYway, it's fixed now: I turned off the High Contrast
in the Accessibility Options, and voila! There ,finally,
was my properly sized screen.
1. My sincere thanks to whoever it was who helped me. I do
appreciate it.
2. Does anyone understand WHY setting the accessibility
High Contrast to ON would cause support.microsoft pages
(only) to display in such an unusable manner? Other MS
pages, links, etc. ALL displayed fine with the exception of
support. pages. And naturally any other web site was fine
too.
Why would setting HIGH CONTRAST to ON have an effect like
that? NBD, but I am the curious type, esp when I know
enough to be dangerous (and confused by) events such as
this. Inquiring minds want to know <g>.
I'm also kind of curious if I should report this
somewhere at MS as a bug, or is it my system somehow? All
other Accessibility settings were off except the High
Contrast. And, it's repeable. I can create it at will on
my laptop, which is using XP Home, fully updated.
Thanks, & have a buncha nice days! NOW I can read KB
articles again! I'm old, but I still love to learn new
things.
Pop
