Results 1 to 7 of 7

Thread: computer HELP! Everything got bigger(details follow)

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Location
    Alberta, Canada
    Posts
    22,005

    computer HELP! Everything got bigger(details follow)

    Well, I got all fired up with the MDCONFIG and the Pre-whatever files and stuff posted here yesterday...so I revisited my Add/Remove programs in Control Panel.

    I saw a program I did NOT recognize, so removed it.

    IT WAS the SOFTWARE AND DRIVER for my video card. So all my fonts and icons and EVERYTHING gradually got bigger, and bigger and bigger...

    The stuff got reinstalled, and the growth spurt is at an end. HOWEVER, I have been through the Display folder several times, and cannot seem to change the size of EVERYTHING back to the way it was.

    I'm running Windows XP. Is there some other program I should be accessing to do this?

    Thanks!
    "Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Sep 2002
    Location
    Wyoming, USA
    Posts
    4,102
    Ooooooh, sorry to open Pandora's Proverbial Box of Driver Death.

    I know exactly how you feel, though, I've been dinking around with the puter since yesterday, too. I think I might actually have it booting up a little faster.

    The only way I know to change the size of things is in Display, Settings. I'm sure you've tried all that though.

    Hope some smart person helps you!
    "We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam

    "We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle

    "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Location
    Alberta, Canada
    Posts
    22,005
    Yeah...I guess I don't know WHAT to change in Display.

    Made the writing go really really tiny for a while...under still-too-big icons!
    "Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda

  4. #4
    Join Date
    May 2005
    Location
    Victoria, Australia
    Posts
    1,758
    Right click on desktop, properties, settings and change the resolution. It's probably gone back to default vga resolution when you got rid of the drivers!

  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by G535
    Right click on desktop, properties, settings and change the resolution. It's probably gone back to default vga resolution when you got rid of the drivers!
    Yes--my res gets messed up every time my batteries get too low.

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Location
    Alberta, Canada
    Posts
    22,005
    ARGH....I had to do a search for Desktop...not in Cont Panel...

    I found the versions in Windows, I think - but there were no "settings" when I right clicked on Properties.

    Also...the type and pics are bigger here, in my email, websites, everything.
    "Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Sep 2003
    Location
    Williamstown, Kentucky
    Posts
    3,481
    Right click (anywhere on your desk top)
    Click "properties" - this will open up a menu

    Menu items to chose from are:
    Themes
    Desktop
    Screen Savor
    Appearance
    Settings

    Click on "appearance"
    (make sure your front size is "normal" if not click on the box to make it that way.

    Click on "settings"
    Those are your monitor settings, you may have to go into advanced to "tweek".
    Owned by my 8 precious furry kids... My 3 daughters Cindy & Abby & Aly and 5 sons Skinny, Stephen, Carson, Fuzzmuzz and Franklin.
    Owned by two special canine sons Coco and Snoopy and two canine daughters, Sadie and Gretchen

    Always in our hearts RBButterscotch & RBThumper, RB Ms. Eleanor

Similar Threads

  1. Plaqueoff - some details FYI
    By Catty1 in forum Cat Health
    Replies: 5
    Last Post: 12-29-2007, 09:16 AM
  2. Replies: 21
    Last Post: 07-02-2007, 11:53 PM
  3. Plaqueoff - some details FYI
    By Catty1 in forum General
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 10-03-2006, 09:02 AM
  4. Plaqueoff - some details FYI
    By Catty1 in forum Dog Health
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 10-03-2006, 09:01 AM
  5. A bigger computer problem.
    By MariaM in forum General
    Replies: 2
    Last Post: 07-06-2005, 10:51 PM

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

Copyright © 2001-2013 Pet of the Day.com