Oversized text

[Guest]

Last week, I caught my daughter being click-happy while she was online and since then, we have had oversized text. I have put the magnifier on 1, the text size on smallest and still the text is way too big. It is doing this on both IE and AOL. I think she was trying to download some Flash software (like I said...click-happy!).

I have been working with computers for 10 years and usually when this happens, I can do the view>text size>smallest with no problems. I am still learning XP at my own pace. Aside from a manual reformat, what else should I do?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

 

[Malke]

Last week, I caught my daughter being click-happy while she was online
and since then, we have had oversized text. I have put the magnifier
on 1, the text size on smallest and still the text is way too big. It
is doing this on both IE and AOL. I think she was trying to download
some Flash software (like I said...click-happy!).

I have been working with computers for 10 years and usually when this
happens, I can do the view>text size>smallest with no problems. I am
still learning XP at my own pace. Aside from a manual reformat, what
else should I do?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

The easiest and quickest way to fix this is to do a System Restore to
just before your daughter messed around.

Cheers,

Malke

 

[Malvern]

Last week, I caught my daughter being click-happy while she was online and

since then, we have had oversized text. I have put the magnifier on 1, the
text size on smallest and still the text is way too big. It is doing this
on both IE and AOL. I think she was trying to download some Flash software
(like I said...click-happy!).

I have been working with computers for 10 years and usually when this

happens, I can do the view>text size>smallest with no problems. I am still
learning XP at my own pace. Aside from a manual reformat, what else should
I do?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

I had the opposite problem--too small. In your case, open IE, go to Tools >
Internet options... > General tab > Accessibility bar (above "Apply"). See
if "Ignore font sizes specified on webpage" is checkmarked. If so, click on
it to unmark.

Malv

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Last week, I caught my daughter being click-happy while she was

online and since then, we have had oversized text. I have put
the magnifier on 1, the text size on smallest and still the text
is way too big. It is doing this on both IE and AOL. I think
she was trying to download some Flash software (like I
said...click-happy!).

I have been working with computers for 10 years and usually

when this happens, I can do the view>text size>smallest with no
problems. I am still learning XP at my own pace. Aside from a
manual reformat, what else should I do?


Reformatting is drastic overkill, and is always the wrong
solution for such a problem. It's the wrong solution for almost
any problem.

Do you have a wheel mouse? Try holding down the Ctrl key and
scrolling the wheel. That changes the text size.

 

[Guest]

I tried Malv's suggestion. Nothing was marked in the accessiblity section, so we havve the "Ignore font size" checked now and it works

THANKS!!!!