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The Help Desk => Computer Related Discussions & Questions => Topic started by: whiffleball on June 22, 2011, 07:00:03 AM
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I'm just going to have to get used to this after years of XP, but problems keep cropping up that I can't resolve.
I changed the display to make fonts bigger. CC comes out perfect; exactly like I need it. Other places like Drudge don't. The main headline on Drudge is bigger, but all the others remain 10 point. In XP I made the font/display setting large and it affected every site I pulled up.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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I've done the same things, and like you, this place comes up perfectly. But I have to use the Ctrl key and the mouse wheel to increase the size of almost every site I go to. It's really irritating.
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I have Win7, and I don't have that problem.
Look on the bottom right of your screen...should show your page size. is it 100%?
It's rare that my font size changes, if it does, it seems to be the site itself, not my computer doing it.
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I have Win7, and I don't have that problem.
Look on the bottom right of your screen...should show your page size. is it 100%?
It's rare that my font size changes, if it does, it seems to be the site itself, not my computer doing it.
I see no such indicator, Deb, for any site.
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Some websites use formatting that doesn't play well with Windows system fonts. You're better off leaving the font size at the normal size and using the zoom/magnify option on your web browser.
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/magnify.png)
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I see no such indicator, Deb, for any site.
Mines on my info line down at the bottom...where the time is. I can change it to different percentages, or it will go to full screen, and a couple of other choices. It's always there regardless of which site I'm on.
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Something that I've noticed with the Google Chrome browser is that If I use "control +" to make the text bigger on a site, Chrome remembers it the next time I open that page.
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Depends on the web browser your using. As Chris has pointed out MS Internet Explorer is not the most 'internet friendly' amongst the browsers. They did a horrible job of coding it to most WWW standards. Guess it helps explain why it gets infected and hijacked so easily.
I luv XP and Win7, but they can keep IE for my money.
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Mines on my info line down at the bottom...where the time is. I can change it to different percentages, or it will go to full screen, and a couple of other choices. It's always there regardless of which site I'm on.
Not here. I'm using Firefox.
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Not here. I'm using Firefox.
I'm using IE 8 or 9, not sure which one it is.
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I don't have the bar that indicates 100% either; just volume, network, ^.
I did use the ctl and mouse wheel which really helps. I tried the magnifier and the page got so large that just a couple of words took up the entire screen. I hate to hose it up trying to fix something that may not be fixable in my very limited capabilities with this stuff.
I use Mozilla for everything; can't stand IE!
Thanks for the tips.
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There should be a Zoom option listed in the View menu (IE).
I don't have FF on this system yet... I forgot where they put theirs.
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There should be a Zoom option listed in the View menu (IE).
I don't have FF on this system yet... I forgot where they put theirs.
Bless you Chris! Zoom is under View and there's an option to zoom text only.
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ctrl++ will increase the page size, too. Ctrl +- will decrease the page size.
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ctrl++ will increase the page size, too. Ctrl +- will decrease the page size.
Thanks Thor. LOL! I kept trying to use crtl + and it didn't do anything. Now I know.