BS: Help! everything shrunk

Subject: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: RangerSteve
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 12:01 PM

Once again, I need help with a computer problem that probably has an obvious answer, but I'm so computer illiterate it's pathetic.

I took my computer in to get it cleaned out (viruses, adware, spyware), and when I got it back, everything had shrunk. The icons on my desktop were smaller, the games (solitaire, free cell) had gotten smaller, and I can barely read what I'm typing right now. What do I do? Thanks in advance for your help.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 12:08 PM

right click on the screen.
under properties, click settings

set screen resolution to desired size

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 12:17 PM

Like BB said, with a couple of notes. You might have to change the resolution, or if you like the way the picture looks but you want your icons bigger, then you can go under the "Appearance" tab and make the fonts or icons bigger and leave the resolution where it is. The higher the resolution the better many things will look.

If your print is too small in just your browser you can go into "View" then set the "text size" in your browser (IE, in this case). There's also an icon you can add to the top of your browser so you just click on the AA and reset the size. In IE, find this via "View" then "Toolbars" then "Customise Toolbars" and you'll see the choices of what you can have at the top of the screen.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 12:23 PM

I run at 800x600 if that helps with selecting the screen resolution.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 01:08 PM

"Shrank", Ranger Steve. Everything shrank. If it shrank yesterday, then you could say that it has shrunk if you like, but that's all the help you're gonna get. ;-)

Pedantically yours,

LH

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: mack/misophist
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 02:13 PM

800X600 is rather less detail than most video cards will handle. If you do anything with graphics, leave the resolution as is and reset the other things individually.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 02:20 PM

For web browsing using Mozilla, click on Tools, then Options, then Content. There is a place there to change font and font size.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Peace
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 02:37 PM

Shrink, shrank, shrunk
Drink, drank, drunk
Think, thank, thunk

Makes sense to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: artbrooks
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 02:49 PM

If everything has changed size, than I think BeardedBruce is on the right track...you do have to be on the desktop rather than in some other application (like, for example, this chat box) for it to work. When you get to settings, look for the slider in the bottom left corner of the box, click and hold it, and put it where you like it. Personally, I like 1024x768...that gives me a text size about the same as a 12-point font at the distance I sit from the screen.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 04:04 PM

It is unlikely that someone "cleaning up" a computer would change the settings in the programs- But highly likely that they would adjust to the monitor being used. Since most repair places have large monitors, they would see the larger icons as too large, and reset the screen to a higher resolution. That would affect both the icon size, print size , and games. Thus my advice, to restore the system to the original settings. As the best setting is dependent on the monitor size ( and capabilities) I would not go sa far as to specify any specific values.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 05:44 PM

Sure it wasn't just your screen growing bigger? : )

LTS

(As computer literate as you are!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 06:31 PM

Ignore it until in the morning. The entire Universe is scheduled to shrink by roughly 25% at midnight tonight. It's likely your computer simply got out of phase with the rest of the Universe and shrank ahead of everything else. When the Big Shrink occurs everything else, including yourself, your house, the moon, and the Andromeda galaxy will shrink by the same percentage that your computer's display has already shrunk.

And please make note of the fact that I used the correct forms of the verb "shrink" in present, past, and past participial tenses. The post my be bullshit, but the grammar's exemplary.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Peace
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 06:36 PM

THIS will happen to the known universe . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Peace
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 06:38 PM

However, Steve, the problem is much more than you suppose. I had to magnify your post by 500% to read it.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 08:12 PM

The OTHER bottle Alice!

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 08:18 PM

Just try the different choices, and stick with the one that suits you. (The smaller your monitor screen is, the lower the numbers on the one you prefer are likely to be.)

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 11:56 PM

Try this:
Start
Control Panel
Display
Appearance tab
Third box down - font size
select normal, large or extra large.

This changes the font size on tool bars and icons, but it doesn't help with the small type on Mudcat posts. Too bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Kaleea
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 12:00 AM

Oooh! I hate that--I hate when that happens! I get that every now & then & I never remember what the heck happened or how it got undid before.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 01:23 AM

1280 x 1084 is standard for most new monitors, whether 17 or 19 inch, if they're LCD types. CRT monitors can have much higher resolutions--I bought a ViewSonic with a good pixel size (.23 is smaller than most) and the resolution can go huge (so the images are quite small unless I enlarge icons and such). It has it's uses, but since I use it along with my LCD monitor (both are hooked up, but usually only the LDC is on) I keep them at the same setting.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 01:25 AM

LH,

Ranger Steve was correct in saying "everything had shrunk". "Everything had shrank" would be so wrong, ans "and when I got it back, everything shrank" would imply it happened before his eyes.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Peace
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 01:41 AM

It has shrunk-ed, nevertheless.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: freda underhill
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 02:42 AM

I thunk, therefore I was.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: freda underhill
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 02:43 AM

I think, therefore I thwam.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 06:14 AM

Everything is shrunken.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 06:40 AM

... or should Alice eat the cookie, I can never rememebr....

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 03:00 PM

one winter night I had a ride on the back of motor bike, and everything shrunk. several years later, things returned to normal size. I'm sorry I've forgotten which button I pressed.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: open mike
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 03:04 PM

you should have specified that they
hang it up to dry after washing.
and not put it in the dryer!

it must have been made from natural
fiber such as wool.

the only thing to do now is make felt from it..

so sorry..

in the future, be sure to read the warning labels..

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 08:23 PM

Yes - I know how you felt.

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 01:10 AM

At first I had thunk maybe his browser settings were just off, but then I thank maybe it was his monitor settings. Now I think it's possibly a bit of both.

Perhaps he'll tell us which it were.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Help! everything shrunk
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 08:28 AM

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