Your skill at finding all the possible settings of fonts in Display Properties, changing the font size in IE and use of Tweakui for other items is what is going to help.
Windows 2000 doesn't have a System Restore feature, so your plans on such backup or the user's skills on this "Proffessional" OS are usually what saves a person from reinstall.
I wish I could sit with you and ask to click here or there, but I can't see your screen and the words to describe it are difficult because the terminology of what to call the font in some screen/tool varies. Is it taskbar or toolbar? (For example.)
What I'm writing is that you dive in and test each effect in the display properties, go get TweakUI for other effects and learn what you can do.
Bob
Hi,
Recently, for some reason that I'm not exactly sure of, I turned on my comp & found that the font & icon sizes had become extremely small. In addition, the display seemed to have shifted slightly to the left so that some of my desktop icons and the ?start? button were only partly visible while there was a black bar at the right hand side of the screen. I had previously installed some windows updates and spyware removing software so that might have had something to do with it. Anyway, I went into 'Control Panel' and tried to alter my display settings. This included changing several items in the ?appearance? section and changing the screen area from 1280x960 pixels to 1280x1024. This worked to a certain degree- the icons on my desktop and those at the bottom right hand corner in the taskbar have increased in size, as has the text in the start menu, and the start button and leftmost icons are now fully visible. However, there are some problems that I am unable to solve. One of these is that the shortcut buttons in the Quick launch toolbar at the bottom of the screen- those for IE, Winamp, Outlook etc.- have not increased in size. ?Show small icons in start menu? isn?t ticked so that?s not the reason. Also, web pages are not displaying correctly- they no longer take up the full page and the text is small. The text size in Internet Explorer settings is on 'largest' so I don't know why this is.
Basically, I?ve tried altering every display-related option I know and I can?t get some of the sizes to increase or the web pages to display properly. As such, I was wondering if anyone knows how I could get my display back to its original settings. I?ve got a system restore disk but I really don?t want to use that because I?ve got so many documents saved on my computer and it seems extreme to use it because of a problem with the display.
Anyway, thanks for reading this and for any advice that you can offer,
Lucinda

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