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Thread #119971 Message #2609588
Posted By: JohnInKansas
12-Apr-09 - 06:36 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Fixing resolution in XP Pro
Subject: RE: Tech: Fixing resolution in XP Pro
Question: Do you use the scroll wheel on your mouse to travel around on the screen?
Reason to ask/think about it: Vista documents that you can use Ctl+ScrollWheel to roll the screen resolution up and down. (It's called an "accessibility aid" for the vision impaired.) A "sticky" Ctl key could change the resolution when you use the scroll wheel.
WinXP has a similar "magnifier." The "up front" help for WinXP Magnifier says that you have to start maginifier (Start|Run, type "magnifier" and hit Enter) to change the setting, but my recollection is that there are quick keys to swap between settings or step up and down(?). Recollection also is that WinXP Help only tells you "how to do it the hard way" and you have to look elsewhere for the quick-keys - - - and I don't recall how I found them in the long-ago times.
(It's also quite possible that this, or something similar, may work only in some programs, since Microsoft obviously stole it from someone/somewhere.)
(There are a number of these "accessibility features" that can be accidentally turned on/off, and they can be quite a puzzle if you're not at least aware that they exist.)
John