How do I turn it OFF?

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R. C. White

I've found out how to turn ON the Magnifier. But I can't find out how to
turn it OFF.

Also, somewhere in the process, I've changed the appearance of my font here
in Windows Live Mail's Reading Pane. It's still Courier New, I guess, and
still Western European coding. But it looks very thin and washed-out and
very hard to read.

I've tried many tricks but none of them worked. I've rebooted several
times, including a complete power-down. And I've done a System Restore,
which at least got rid of the 120 DPI that I turned on, trying to improve
the readability. I've been to the web pages
(http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsvista/default.aspx, for
example), but they just duplicate what I see elsewhere. Is the
washed-out-font a "feature" of accessibility, or is it unrelated to the
Magnifier?

I'm not visually handicapped, fortunately, so I don't normally come to this
newsgroup. But someone in the Vista.general newsgroup asked about the
Magnifier. Trying to find out how to help, I easily figured out how to turn
it ON. But now I see the dilemma: There are NO instructions that I can
find for how to turn it OFF!

What am I missing?

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)
 
You do not get a small window with an Exit button? Once activated
check the Taskbar for the Magnifier and rightclick and click Close.
 
Hi, Byte.

NOW I see that on the Taskbar! Where was it this morning? I looked all
over for something and never found it. :>( I'm using Vista, so it might be
different from WinXP.

But I found the answer,,, finally, with help from another MVP. Back on the
Ease of Access page, under Make the computer easier to see, I found the
checkbox, unchecked it and Applied it.

(And my font problem was because somehow Clear Type got turned off. In
Vista, it's ON by default.)

Thanks for the tip.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)
 
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