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Doug Chesner

I did something (and cant for the life of me find it again..) that made my
text huge in plain-text setting of my e-mail, browser...ie6 on xppro
system.....i remember the screen i was messing with said (among many others)
windows large...

but even my browser looks horrible now when I visit websites....looks
similar to plain text on a white back ground.

How/where do I correct this please??

Thanks,

Doug
 
I dont completely understand your problem, but try right
clicking your desktop go into Properties> Appreance Tab,
at the bottom there is a drop down menu that says Font
Size: make sure its set to normal.

Hope I helped;
~Mitch
 
Mitch....Another item it changed was the way the text below the desktop
icons look......before there was just the sand (bg image) and white txt
.......now there is a blue square behind the text below the icons....i tried
changing to white but then a white box was below the icons.......

does this help to identify what I changed? It had something to do with
users that had weak/bad vision problems (I'm referring to the window box
where I made these changes)....
 
Get back to the Appearance Tab
Set to

Windows Classic styl
Windows Standar
Norma

OK Changes

If didn't help, push Advanced button on the same tab, and manually adjust specific settings
 
Open IE, go to Tools, select Internet Options, on the General tab, click
Accessibility, if any of the boxes are checked, uncheck them and click apply
and ok. If none are checked, try using System Restore to take you back to a
time prior to when this began. Start\All Programs\Accessories\System
Tools\System Restore.
 
Michael:

Thank you for the help, yet this did not help to undo whatever I did, and so
far, none of these windows any of you have mentioned, have been exactly like
the one i was in originally, but yours was the closest yet. (Unfortunately
I had disabled system restore for an unrelated reason and had not yet
enabled it when I made these changes. What really bothers me most is I'm
not at all new to any of this but I just cannot remember where it was i
found these settings and I know it wasn't a separate "program"
......sigh......msn page still is all white with all the colors, shapes,
designs GONE! yeechh!!

Any other ideas? :(
 
For the colors, click the color button on the same tab.

The text in a message box for your web based e-mail should have it's own
setting. In other words, it's not an IE setting but a setting created for
your web based e-mail and that would be an option at the site or in the
message box. Look for options at the site.
 
Michael, I don't use web-based e-mail (anymore) since I've really become a
fan of outlook express. As I'm typing this my OE setting is plain text but
it's appearing as if its 32 font size. I just meant that websites don't
appear properly any longer since I screwed this up. Almost as if all (or
most) of the
HTML: 
 coding no longer works......a couple of times I saw
where a horizontal scroll-bar should be yet it was only the outline of it
and the arrows on either end worked properly to scroll.

Another item it changed was the way the text below the desktop
icons looked......before there was just the (bliss.bmp image of rolling
fields) and white text under each icon.   Now there is a blue square behind
the text below the icons, so that its now white text on a blue square.  If I
change color, the square changes color, and I'd like to just get rid of the
colored square that the text is surrounded by.

What I do remember was that [the box where I changed the settings] it was
specifically for people who had weak or very  poor vision.  Just cannot find
it again.  (Everything I've told you was caused by what I did in that
"vision-aide" window).  Hope this helps you to know what I did

A sincere and warm thanks for you and all the rest who donate time here to
us.

Doug
 
Eureka......(laughing at myself....DUH)

I went to "help and support" from the start menu, and clicked accessibility,
which led me to the identical window where I created this problem. The
fix? Turn off "high visibility" WHEW! Everything is back to normal.

Sorry to have put you all thru this....my bad.

Doug
 
Doug Chesner said:
Eureka......(laughing at myself....DUH)

I went to "help and support" from the start menu, and clicked accessibility,
which led me to the identical window where I created this problem. The
fix? Turn off "high visibility" WHEW! Everything is back to normal.

Sorry to have put you all thru this....my bad.

Doug
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Yerr welcum :) I had another idea, but you found it and at least TOLD us
you did.

Malv
 
Now that everything's back to normal....AND BEFORE I mess it up again, (LOL)
is there anyway to utilize the features Microsoft supplies in XP [for vision
impaired] users, without losing all the (formatting?) in the browser?

If anyone has the time to mess with this for me, (if you've never done this
before and... why would you if you have good eyes??) if you repeat what I
did you should get the same results and maybe an idea as to how to make it
work correctly....sorry if I'm rambling on ...

start/help and support/Accessibility then click the third item in the
LEFT pane, then in the right pane or main window under pick a task, use
either the first or second link, follow it to the accessibility features
window, check the box to enable "high contrast"

now click the settings button and click extra large, apply it and then just
open www.msn.com and you should see what is now an awful looking rendition
of the sites normal appearance.

If you could figure out how I can use this and still retain normal site
appearances I would forever be in your debt!!!
 
You alter IE at Tools - Internet Options - on the gereral tab and look at the 4 buttons at the bottom.

Also View menu, Text Size.

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Doug Chesner said:
Now that everything's back to normal....AND BEFORE I mess it up again, (LOL)
is there anyway to utilize the features Microsoft supplies in XP [for vision
impaired] users, without losing all the (formatting?) in the browser?

If anyone has the time to mess with this for me, (if you've never done this
before and... why would you if you have good eyes??) if you repeat what I
did you should get the same results and maybe an idea as to how to make it
work correctly....sorry if I'm rambling on ...

start/help and support/Accessibility then click the third item in the
LEFT pane, then in the right pane or main window under pick a task, use
either the first or second link, follow it to the accessibility features
window, check the box to enable "high contrast"

now click the settings button and click extra large, apply it and then just
open www.msn.com and you should see what is now an awful looking rendition
of the sites normal appearance.

If you could figure out how I can use this and still retain normal site
appearances I would forever be in your debt!!!
Yerr welcum :) I had another idea, but you found it and at least TOLD us
you did.

Malv
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Hello again David.....and thanks for the input. I went back and re-enabled
"high contrast" settings, and of course all went awry again in the browser,
so I tried what you suggested.....while the "view"/text size option worked
at shrinking absolutely HUGE text, and made the window appear a bit more
normal, the browser was still unable to utilize all of the html coding that
makes (for example, the msn website) it such a good looking page....it loses
tables with high contrast etc. and none of the areas you mentioned helped to
correct it, so for now I've disabled the "high contrast" setting. IMO
this info is something that should get back to the boys at the drawing board
so that they are aware of this and maybe can correct it in future versions.

Sincere Thanks again (as always!)

Doug


You alter IE at Tools - Internet Options - on the gereral tab and look at
the 4 buttons at the bottom.

Also View menu, Text Size.

--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
Doug Chesner said:
Now that everything's back to normal....AND BEFORE I mess it up again, (LOL)
is there anyway to utilize the features Microsoft supplies in XP [for vision
impaired] users, without losing all the (formatting?) in the browser?

If anyone has the time to mess with this for me, (if you've never done this
before and... why would you if you have good eyes??) if you repeat what I
did you should get the same results and maybe an idea as to how to make it
work correctly....sorry if I'm rambling on ...

start/help and support/Accessibility then click the third item in the
LEFT pane, then in the right pane or main window under pick a task, use
either the first or second link, follow it to the accessibility features
window, check the box to enable "high contrast"

now click the settings button and click extra large, apply it and then just
open www.msn.com and you should see what is now an awful looking rendition
of the sites normal appearance.

If you could figure out how I can use this and still retain normal site
appearances I would forever be in your debt!!!
Yerr welcum :) I had another idea, but you found it and at least TOLD us
you did.

Malv
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Click to expand...
 
I've been fighting with the Sydney Morning Herald. The world's prestigious paper. (I read the NYT - it's not very good, it might be second best in the world but still.) Lucky us has a site redesign last monday. If View - Text Size - Large or Largest it overlaps the text. Theor previous site was functional. No higher praise really. It adhered to the principal behind HTML that the browser decides how to show the page not the web site. This is no longer the case.

They quoted stats at me about readability of pixel lengths. But if parts of the text is hidden what does it matter if it's an optimal length. It also allow advertisers certainity in placements of their advertisements.

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And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
Doug Chesner said:
Hello again David.....and thanks for the input. I went back and re-enabled
"high contrast" settings, and of course all went awry again in the browser,
so I tried what you suggested.....while the "view"/text size option worked
at shrinking absolutely HUGE text, and made the window appear a bit more
normal, the browser was still unable to utilize all of the html coding that
makes (for example, the msn website) it such a good looking page....it loses
tables with high contrast etc. and none of the areas you mentioned helped to
correct it, so for now I've disabled the "high contrast" setting. IMO
this info is something that should get back to the boys at the drawing board
so that they are aware of this and maybe can correct it in future versions.

Sincere Thanks again (as always!)

Doug


You alter IE at Tools - Internet Options - on the gereral tab and look at
the 4 buttons at the bottom.

Also View menu, Text Size.

--
----------------------------------------------------------
And the band played ....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aldon/74121.html
Doug Chesner said:
Now that everything's back to normal....AND BEFORE I mess it up again, (LOL)
is there anyway to utilize the features Microsoft supplies in XP [for vision
impaired] users, without losing all the (formatting?) in the browser?

If anyone has the time to mess with this for me, (if you've never done this
before and... why would you if you have good eyes??) if you repeat what I
did you should get the same results and maybe an idea as to how to make it
work correctly....sorry if I'm rambling on ...

start/help and support/Accessibility then click the third item in the
LEFT pane, then in the right pane or main window under pick a task, use
either the first or second link, follow it to the accessibility features
window, check the box to enable "high contrast"

now click the settings button and click extra large, apply it and then just
open www.msn.com and you should see what is now an awful looking rendition
of the sites normal appearance.

If you could figure out how I can use this and still retain normal site
appearances I would forever be in your debt!!!
Yerr welcum :) I had another idea, but you found it and at least TOLD us
you did.

Malv
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