Helloooooooo!!!!

Well, stupid me finally figured out how to get Display. I went to control panel, clicked on settings, advanced. etc.

Anyway, IT DIDN'T GIVE ME ANYTHING TO SLIDE. Maybe that's vista?? But it did show me the DPI thing and I changed it (at least I think I changed it to 120).

that was the only option. There was no slide rule to slide it to 104

So when I clicked on 120, all kinds of prompts came up, telling me that this will affect this, or affect that, and if I had a disc to insert it, so I just got scared and x'd out of EVERYTHING.

then it prompted me:

"the following changes will be made if you re-start".

So Melody re-started.

And guess what? And this is funny.

My desktop icons are still showing what they were showing. Instead of OUTLOOK EXPRESS, I see something like OUT (at least I know what this is so I don't care).

but when I clicked on Mozilla, everything on the top tool bars was nice and clear and in bold. (I have no idea how I did this, but I LIKE IT!!!).

And the lettering in the postings are a bit bigger.

So whatever I did do, well I accomplished SOMETHING, now didn't I?

So now here's my next question.

When Alan goes to his YAHOO mail, let's say he has 20 messages. the fonts are so tiny.

He said "Melody, how can I get my yahoo mail to show me the mail SO I CAN SEE IT".

So here's you next assignment.

HOW DO YOU BLOW UP THE MAIL IN YAHOO?.

And please don't be giving me no dpi instructions because I'm lucky I didn't blow up my computer.
lol Melody

I should have said click on the the graph lines in the dpi settings section to get it to change- there's not really a slider thing showing - basically you would click on the lines and move it to the right for larger..
sorry, it is XP though.

but glad you got it fixed a bit...


now for the Yahoo - that's going online to the website and reading email there right? - he's not using outlook express to do the pop mail thing??

I use the Verizon /yahoo email when i check mine online sometimes - I just double checked and I don't see anywhere to make the fonts/text bigger when viewing email on the website.

the only thing I can think of is making the browser fonts larger - if you only need thse larger now..
or trying the DPI settings again which will make all text larger , or smaller depending on which way you slide the lines.

he doesn't have pop mail set up for checking yahoo?
that might be the way to go as far as being able to adjust incoming & composing font sizes.

Of course I recommend Mozilla's Thunderbird email program over Outlook Express - seems much simpler to set it up. supposedly more secure too.

was wondering what your screen resolution is?
it's in the control panel - display & then settings tab screen.

It says:

Highest - 32 bit.

is that bad??? good?? or what??

And when I went to control panel, the lettering is big but I can't make out the words. For example, Display is shown like DI

What the heck do I do now??

Melody

Isn't there another thing next to the 32 bit part??
mine says screen resolution on the left and color quality {32 bit} on the right
yours might say 1024 x 760 or something - or maybe that's only for LCD screens - i don't remember what mine said in that area with my old monitor.
If it isn't there no biggie - i was just curious...

Back to the problem at hand...
if you open the DI {display icon} can you read anything there? or is it all big too?

I think if I were you - I'd go back to what ever you changed and put as many of the settings back to the original sizes if you can.
Did you change the icon sizes on the appearance section and the DPI sizes too??

maybe go to the display , dpi and set it back to normal first & see if that helps.
then if it is still too big go to the appearance and try a change there or a new color/theme and test that.

Ok went back and re read - so you didn't change any dpi settings at all??
If not don't mess with that then-
- wherever you did make a change just go back to it and make the font or icons sizes smaller.
All you have to do is back track and find any places you made changes.
then only try one thing at a time and test it - if it doesn't work then put it back to what it was at then try the next place.

Jo:

This is what I just did. I went to my desktop, right clicked and chose properties. clicked on Appearance, and where it had 'EXTRA LARGE FONTS". I changed it to NORMAL.

everything on my desktop is now back to teeny and the top of my browser is small.

so can someone tell me STEP BY STEP.

How to get my desktop fonts to be bigger (and that I can see the whole title of the font, and not just the word OUT, instead of OUTLOOK EXPRESS).

And how can I make the stuff on the top of the browser (right now it says "NeuroTalk Communities - Reply to Topic - Mozilla firefox.

This wording has a blue background but the lettering is very small, as is the toolbars.

How can I make the lettering bigger, and bolder?

So I need two things.

My desktop icons to be big and readable.

And when I go on the internet, the top of the screen where it tells you where you are, (and all the toolbars), well they are not BOLD, and the lettering is too small.

I realize this might be simple for many of you, but believe me, I CAN LEARN HOW TO DO THIS. I just need to be shown it.

Thaks much.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
lol
Melody

With mozilla you can hit control and roll your mouse wheel and
things get bigger.

If you use the Spring screen skin option here the fonts in the
reply box are much larger normally than with other skins here.

This is not "saved" however, you have to do it manually each time.

Glad you got it back to normal.
Lets try this ..

Go to Display and click the appearance tab - see the drop down menus ?
{on the windows and buttons drop down -are you using g Classic or XP style?}
I use Classic so the next group of choices might be different if you are using XP style.
but we can try it and see & it's easy to change back if not what you like.

So on the Color Scheme drop down click it to see the choices - click thru them -and it will show a little demo/display of what it would look like - you might have some that say large. if you find one you like fairly well i can tell you how to customize the color & font sizes one by one.
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If you don't see any thing you like and want to keep the colors that you have, we can do the next step which is to click the advanced button.
there is where you can set colors and font sizes to customize your theme.

I'll give you time to check it out and be back in a while.

If it helps - i found Microsoft's info page on how to do it also - might cover something I missed.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310543

hmm - you might want to explore the accessibility features-

[Accessibility Tutorials / Windows XP
Use Large Icons
You can enlarge the icons on your screen to make them easier to see or to access by choosing the Large icons option. This procedure tells you how to select this option through DisplayProperties in Control Panel.]
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/trai...argeicons.aspx

Hi Melody!

You are using Vista? I have some places you can go to change the look of everything, and it is easy to put it all back to normal too. Just right click on anywhere on the screen and select "Personalize".







Hope this helps