Huge Fonts on XP

balloo_2

Help my 2 grandchildren have been on the computer and now all the fonts are huge. First of all I tryed holding down Ctrl and rotating the scroll button on the mouse that made the picture smaller but the other fonts were still big the toolbar fonts are big all the desktop Icons have spread all over the screen. I have also been to Control Panel clicked the display- appearance- font size. they are set to normal but its still the same.

BillTrac

Balloo, at the bottom right hand side of your screen will be number with possibly a + sign to the left hand side of it. (sorry, not explaining too clearly)This is the screen zoom level.

Check it's at 100% not higher.

ps. it's not on the toolbar. It's displayed when the toolbar drops.

edited because dumb me assumed Balloo was on IE. (Jsut because I was..doh!!)

Have the accessibility settings been changed possibly?

Lil306

Where exactly is it large fonts, sounds more like windows display settings than somewhere like firefox/IE

Some options you can adjust,

If internet only
View > Text Size

If computer
Right click on desktop > properties > settings > resolution (640x480 = stupid small, 1024x768 min)
Go to appearance tab > advanced > choose the "icon" option, check the font > normally about 8

stu484

Can you tell us where the fonts are huge, just the web browser (which one) or system wide.

Can you post a screen shot of your desktop. Press CTRL+PRNT SCRN, paste that into MS Paint, save it, then upload that to imageshack.us, and then post that here.

balloo_2

The large fonts where everywhere But when I held down Ctrl and scrolled the wheel on the mouse the pic went smaller But the fonts on the the top bars and bottom are still huge and a sign stating all the icons cannot be stored I did not understand what you were telling me to do here.

If internet only
View > Text Size

1024x768 is the max my pc will go to.

balloo_2

Should have said did a system restore in the begining and it was the same

Bowling_4_Gold

Right-click an open area of the Windows Desktop and then click "Properties" to open the "Display Properties" window.

Click the "Appearance" tab.

In the drop down list labelled "Font Size", select the desired size.

Click "OK" to save the change and exit the "Display Properties" window.



Probably wrong but worth a shot

Taken from http://www.xp-tips.com/change-font-size.shtml

Comyface

BillTrac wrote: »

Balloo, at the bottom right hand side of your screen will be number with possibly a + sign to the left hand side of it. (sorry, not explaining too clearly)This is the screen zoom level.

Check it's at 100% not higher.

ps. it's not on the toolbar. It's displayed when the toolbar drops.

edited because dumb me assumed Balloo was on IE. (Jsut because I was..doh!!)

Have the accessibility settings been changed possibly?

Just did a quick search of thisx forum (very un-techie so rarely come here) to see if I can wok out my problem, and this sorted it! I was somehow on 125% randomly. Thank you.