had to reinstall windows xp now havind probles with large text

i hope i'm in the right place, after days of trying to fix my computer i couldnt log on to any programs(msn,yahoo,and alot of other thimgs ) i ran adware, spybot a2 squared and avg everything came up clean. i was told to reinstall windows xp (hope that wasnt a mistake) lol
anyway now my text is very large ive checked the size it says its normal size. but its not its as big as when i boot in safe mode i tried to install drivers but nothing has worked, also my computer is very slow. is there anything i can do to fix this?

 

Umm...hold the CTRL(control) key on the left side of your keyboard and play around with your mousewheel up/down. That should change your size. If not, I dont know sorry.

 

Try format then reinstall winxp, mayby it will help

 

NO! this is the second post I've seen from you suggesting that the person format their machine. This is not acceptable. Until you can actually contribute, you have been placed in a read only group for the technical forum.

 

Re: had to reinstall windows xp now having problems with large text large text

i tried holding the control key and moving mouse the up and down.that didnt work.and wow i need to proof read my spelling sucked in my thread lmbo.god computers make me feel DUMB.are there any other ways to try to fix my problem.thank you

 

Since you just reinstalled XP do you have all your updates ?

Is the large text thing just a problem with web stuff (Internet Explorer) ?

Check this, on IE Menu bar click View > Text size. If the setting is higher than Medium that could be a contributing factor.

Steve

 

I don't know if this is the same in XP or not, I'm sitting at my 98 machine at work at the moment, but you should be able to:

Right Click on the Desktop,
Select Properties,
Choose the Settings tab,
Choose the Advanced button,

Then there should be an option for Font Size, this should be set to Small Fonts as that is the default.

 

re: had to reinstall windows xp now having problems with large text

i changed the size to smallest on the menu bar restarted my commputer and nothing everything is large as soon as windows starts up also tried to go to desktop clicked on properties hit advanced but theres a item box and a font box but the font box is empty so i cant change that could i have reinstalled windows wrong? my windows update always says downloading up dates but never does anything else hmmmmmmmm

 

When you say your font size is missing, what do you mean? Are you talking about the DPI settings? Maybe the selection under the DPI settings are on custom. Click on the checkmark which will pull down the options. Select normal size. Are you saying this box is empty?

 

I had the same problem and needed to download a video driver. Actually, needed a lot of new drivers (USB, sound, etc.) after formatting, re-installing XP (home), SP2 and SP3 and whole host of other updates. Now having trouble with a printer driver (*.exe is not a valid win32 application) and AV (PC cillin is sort of running - I can't launch it but all of a sudden, some things pop up). I hope your problem is limited to font size... That's how I started!

 

Please don't bump up such old threads..it serves no purpose. Thank you.