Guest xylophone Posted June 30, 2008 Posted June 30, 2008 I have XP SP3 on a Dell, with Office 2007 Student and Home, and IE7. I can right click on Desktop/Properties to get the Display Properties, from where I can manipulate the specified font and font sizes to my satisfaction, which I have done. However, none of this seems to have any effect on the minuscule font sizes that appear elsewhere and over which, for the life of me, I cannot see how I have any control. For example, the Display Properties box has tiny font sizes, say size 4, Start/Favourites come up in a tiny size, likewise Start/All Programs. Weird. Start on its own comes up in big fonts. I can read the tiny fonts, but they why this behaviour and how can I adjust these? They are driving me mad?
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted June 30, 2008 Posted June 30, 2008 Re: Miniscule fonts First of all, see replies to your related post in OE General newsgroup. By any chance did you just install a driver update offered by Windows Update? If not and this is a sudden, new problem that occurred after WinXP SP3 was installed, free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada. • US: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11273&gprid=522131 • CA: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-ca&prid=11273&gprid=522131 • UK: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-gb&prid=11273&gprid=522131 • AU: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-au&prid=11273&gprid=522131 • Other: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | select Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3 -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ xylophone wrote: > I have XP SP3 on a Dell, with Office 2007 Student and Home, and IE7. I > can > right click on Desktop/Properties to get the Display Properties, from > where > I can manipulate the specified font and font sizes to my satisfaction, > which > I have done. However, none of this seems to have any effect on the > minuscule font sizes that appear elsewhere and over which, for the life of > me, I cannot see how I have any control. For example, the Display > Properties box has tiny font sizes, say size 4, Start/Favourites come up > in > a tiny size, likewise Start/All Programs. Weird. Start on its own comes > up > in big fonts. I can read the tiny fonts, but they why this behaviour and > how can I adjust these? They are driving me mad?
Guest xylophone Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 Re: Miniscule fonts Many thanks. I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1, and then in Microsoft Update after installing a new Office Home and Student Edition. I assume that in there there were driver updates. I shall follow your links and learn. You have helped me many times in the past, and I am most grateful "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message news:OXgTSXw2IHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > First of all, see replies to your related post in OE General newsgroup. > > By any chance did you just install a driver update offered by Windows > Update? > > If not and this is a sudden, new problem that occurred after WinXP SP3 was > installed, free unlimited installation and compatibility support is > available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 > Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States and > Canada. > > • US: > http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11273&gprid=522131 > > • CA: > http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-ca&prid=11273&gprid=522131 > > • UK: > http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-gb&prid=11273&gprid=522131 > > • AU: > http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-au&prid=11273&gprid=522131 > > • Other: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | select > Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3 > -- > ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) > MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 > AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net > DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ > > > xylophone wrote: >> I have XP SP3 on a Dell, with Office 2007 Student and Home, and IE7. I >> can >> right click on Desktop/Properties to get the Display Properties, from >> where >> I can manipulate the specified font and font sizes to my satisfaction, >> which >> I have done. However, none of this seems to have any effect on the >> minuscule font sizes that appear elsewhere and over which, for the life >> of >> me, I cannot see how I have any control. For example, the Display >> Properties box has tiny font sizes, say size 4, Start/Favourites come up >> in >> a tiny size, likewise Start/All Programs. Weird. Start on its own comes >> up >> in big fonts. I can read the tiny fonts, but they why this behaviour and >> how can I adjust these? They are driving me mad? >
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 Re: Miniscule fonts > ...I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update > immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1 Did you install the posst-SP3 updates via Windows Update or manually? Are you sure they installed? Perhaps not... CrystalBall© sez... Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP installation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144 NB: Also applies to clean installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery installs. -- ~PA Bear xylophone wrote: > Many thanks. I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update > immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1, and then in > Microsoft Update after installing a new Office Home and Student Edition. > I > assume that in there there were driver updates. > > I shall follow your links and learn. You have helped me many times in the > past, and I am most grateful > > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:OXgTSXw2IHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> First of all, see replies to your related post in OE General newsgroup. >> >> By any chance did you just install a driver update offered by Windows >> Update? >> >> If not and this is a sudden, new problem that occurred after WinXP SP3 >> was >> installed, free unlimited installation and compatibility support is >> available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 >> Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States >> and >> Canada. >> >> • US: >> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >> >> • CA: >> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-ca&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >> >> • UK: >> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-gb&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >> >> • AU: >> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-au&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >> >> • Other: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | >> select >> Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3 >> -- >> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) >> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 >> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net >> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ >> >> >> xylophone wrote: >>> I have XP SP3 on a Dell, with Office 2007 Student and Home, and IE7. I >>> can >>> right click on Desktop/Properties to get the Display Properties, from >>> where >>> I can manipulate the specified font and font sizes to my satisfaction, >>> which >>> I have done. However, none of this seems to have any effect on the >>> minuscule font sizes that appear elsewhere and over which, for the life >>> of >>> me, I cannot see how I have any control. For example, the Display >>> Properties box has tiny font sizes, say size 4, Start/Favourites come up >>> in >>> a tiny size, likewise Start/All Programs. Weird. Start on its own >>> comes >>> up >>> in big fonts. I can read the tiny fonts, but they why this behaviour >>> and >>> how can I adjust these? They are driving me mad?
Guest xylophone Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 Re: Miniscule fonts I'm not sure what the point is here I am supposed to understand. I reinstalled XP via my Dell reinstall CD. Thereafter, I installed the updates via MS, call it Windows or Microsoft Update I don't now remember (are they not the same?). Why should these updates not have installed, when they said they did? More worryingly, I am amazed to be told that such updates are not successful on a reinstall. I would like that confirmed please. I understood from MS announcements that XP would be supported for x years, which is why I and thousands of others bought new PC's with XP and no crap Vista. So where does this doomsday scenario come from? If you can't update following a repair, installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery installs, what is left, and why don't we just pack up and go home!: is how I see it. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message news:%23hGbuy62IHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> ...I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update >> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1 > > Did you install the posst-SP3 updates via Windows Update or manually? Are > you sure they installed? Perhaps not... > > CrystalBall© sez... > > Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft > Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP > installation: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144 > > NB: Also applies to clean installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery > installs. > -- > ~PA Bear > > > xylophone wrote: >> Many thanks. I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update >> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1, and then in >> Microsoft Update after installing a new Office Home and Student Edition. >> I >> assume that in there there were driver updates. >> >> I shall follow your links and learn. You have helped me many times in >> the >> past, and I am most grateful >> >> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:OXgTSXw2IHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>> First of all, see replies to your related post in OE General newsgroup. >>> >>> By any chance did you just install a driver update offered by Windows >>> Update? >>> >>> If not and this is a sudden, new problem that occurred after WinXP SP3 >>> was >>> installed, free unlimited installation and compatibility support is >>> available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 >>> Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States >>> and >>> Canada. >>> >>> • US: >>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>> >>> • CA: >>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-ca&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>> >>> • UK: >>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-gb&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>> >>> • AU: >>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-au&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>> >>> • Other: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | >>> select >>> Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3 >>> -- >>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) >>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 >>> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net >>> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ >>> >>> >>> xylophone wrote: >>>> I have XP SP3 on a Dell, with Office 2007 Student and Home, and IE7. I >>>> can >>>> right click on Desktop/Properties to get the Display Properties, from >>>> where >>>> I can manipulate the specified font and font sizes to my satisfaction, >>>> which >>>> I have done. However, none of this seems to have any effect on the >>>> minuscule font sizes that appear elsewhere and over which, for the life >>>> of >>>> me, I cannot see how I have any control. For example, the Display >>>> Properties box has tiny font sizes, say size 4, Start/Favourites come >>>> up >>>> in >>>> a tiny size, likewise Start/All Programs. Weird. Start on its own >>>> comes >>>> up >>>> in big fonts. I can read the tiny fonts, but they why this behaviour >>>> and >>>> how can I adjust these? They are driving me mad? >
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted July 1, 2008 Posted July 1, 2008 Re: Miniscule fonts If your Update History at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com says the updates were successfully installed, don't worry about it. -- ~PA Bear xylophone wrote: > I'm not sure what the point is here I am supposed to understand. I > reinstalled XP via my Dell reinstall CD. Thereafter, I installed the > updates via MS, call it Windows or Microsoft Update I don't now remember > (are they not the same?). Why should these updates not have installed, > when > they said they did? More worryingly, I am amazed to be told that such > updates are not successful on a reinstall. I would like that confirmed > please. I understood from MS announcements that XP would be supported for > x > years, which is why I and thousands of others bought new PC's with XP and > no > crap Vista. So where does this doomsday scenario come from? If you can't > update following a repair, installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery > installs, what is left, and why don't we just pack up and go home!: is how > I > see it. > > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:%23hGbuy62IHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>> ...I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update >>> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1 >> >> Did you install the posst-SP3 updates via Windows Update or manually? >> Are >> you sure they installed? Perhaps not... >> >> CrystalBall© sez... >> >> Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from >> Microsoft >> Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP >> installation: >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144 >> >> NB: Also applies to clean installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery >> installs. >> -- >> ~PA Bear >> >> >> xylophone wrote: >>> Many thanks. I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update >>> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1, and then in >>> Microsoft Update after installing a new Office Home and Student Edition. >>> I >>> assume that in there there were driver updates. >>> >>> I shall follow your links and learn. You have helped me many times in >>> the >>> past, and I am most grateful >>> >>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:OXgTSXw2IHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>>> First of all, see replies to your related post in OE General newsgroup. >>>> >>>> By any chance did you just install a driver update offered by Windows >>>> Update? >>>> >>>> If not and this is a sudden, new problem that occurred after WinXP SP3 >>>> was >>>> installed, free unlimited installation and compatibility support is >>>> available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 >>>> Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States >>>> and >>>> Canada. >>>> >>>> • US: >>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>> >>>> • CA: >>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-ca&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>> >>>> • UK: >>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-gb&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>> >>>> • AU: >>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-au&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>> >>>> • Other: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | >>>> select >>>> Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3 >>>> -- >>>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) >>>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 >>>> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net >>>> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ >>>> >>>> >>>> xylophone wrote: >>>>> I have XP SP3 on a Dell, with Office 2007 Student and Home, and IE7. >>>>> I >>>>> can >>>>> right click on Desktop/Properties to get the Display Properties, from >>>>> where >>>>> I can manipulate the specified font and font sizes to my satisfaction, >>>>> which >>>>> I have done. However, none of this seems to have any effect on the >>>>> minuscule font sizes that appear elsewhere and over which, for the >>>>> life >>>>> of >>>>> me, I cannot see how I have any control. For example, the Display >>>>> Properties box has tiny font sizes, say size 4, Start/Favourites come >>>>> up >>>>> in >>>>> a tiny size, likewise Start/All Programs. Weird. Start on its own >>>>> comes >>>>> up >>>>> in big fonts. I can read the tiny fonts, but they why this behaviour >>>>> and >>>>> how can I adjust these? They are driving me mad?
Guest xylophone Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 Re: Miniscule fonts Thanks. Panic over. To get back to my original query, do you have any explanation to offer as to 1) why the fonts I describe are unusually small, and 2) what I can do about that? "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message news:eoJb%23S92IHA.2524@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > If your Update History at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com says the > updates were successfully installed, don't worry about it. > -- > ~PA Bear > > xylophone wrote: >> I'm not sure what the point is here I am supposed to understand. I >> reinstalled XP via my Dell reinstall CD. Thereafter, I installed the >> updates via MS, call it Windows or Microsoft Update I don't now remember >> (are they not the same?). Why should these updates not have installed, >> when >> they said they did? More worryingly, I am amazed to be told that such >> updates are not successful on a reinstall. I would like that confirmed >> please. I understood from MS announcements that XP would be supported >> for x >> years, which is why I and thousands of others bought new PC's with XP and >> no >> crap Vista. So where does this doomsday scenario come from? If you >> can't >> update following a repair, installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery >> installs, what is left, and why don't we just pack up and go home!: is >> how I >> see it. >> >> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:%23hGbuy62IHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>>> ...I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update >>>> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1 >>> >>> Did you install the posst-SP3 updates via Windows Update or manually? >>> Are >>> you sure they installed? Perhaps not... >>> >>> CrystalBall© sez... >>> >>> Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from >>> Microsoft >>> Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP >>> installation: >>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144 >>> >>> NB: Also applies to clean installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery >>> installs. >>> -- >>> ~PA Bear >>> >>> >>> xylophone wrote: >>>> Many thanks. I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update >>>> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1, and then in >>>> Microsoft Update after installing a new Office Home and Student >>>> Edition. >>>> I >>>> assume that in there there were driver updates. >>>> >>>> I shall follow your links and learn. You have helped me many times in >>>> the >>>> past, and I am most grateful >>>> >>>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:OXgTSXw2IHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>>>> First of all, see replies to your related post in OE General >>>>> newsgroup. >>>>> >>>>> By any chance did you just install a driver update offered by Windows >>>>> Update? >>>>> >>>>> If not and this is a sudden, new problem that occurred after WinXP SP3 >>>>> was >>>>> installed, free unlimited installation and compatibility support is >>>>> available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 >>>>> Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States >>>>> and >>>>> Canada. >>>>> >>>>> • US: >>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>> >>>>> • CA: >>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-ca&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>> >>>>> • UK: >>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-gb&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>> >>>>> • AU: >>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-au&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>> >>>>> • Other: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | >>>>> select >>>>> Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3 >>>>> -- >>>>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) >>>>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 >>>>> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net >>>>> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> xylophone wrote: >>>>>> I have XP SP3 on a Dell, with Office 2007 Student and Home, and IE7. >>>>>> I >>>>>> can >>>>>> right click on Desktop/Properties to get the Display Properties, from >>>>>> where >>>>>> I can manipulate the specified font and font sizes to my >>>>>> satisfaction, >>>>>> which >>>>>> I have done. However, none of this seems to have any effect on the >>>>>> minuscule font sizes that appear elsewhere and over which, for the >>>>>> life >>>>>> of >>>>>> me, I cannot see how I have any control. For example, the Display >>>>>> Properties box has tiny font sizes, say size 4, Start/Favourites come >>>>>> up >>>>>> in >>>>>> a tiny size, likewise Start/All Programs. Weird. Start on its own >>>>>> comes >>>>>> up >>>>>> in big fonts. I can read the tiny fonts, but they why this behaviour >>>>>> and >>>>>> how can I adjust these? They are driving me mad? >
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 Re: Miniscule fonts Open a free support incident, Xylophone. See links in a previous reply of mine. xylophone wrote: > Thanks. Panic over. > > To get back to my original query, do you have any explanation to offer as > to > 1) why the fonts I describe are unusually small, and 2) what I can do > about > that? > > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:eoJb%23S92IHA.2524@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> If your Update History at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com says the >> updates were successfully installed, don't worry about it. >> -- >> ~PA Bear >> >> xylophone wrote: >>> I'm not sure what the point is here I am supposed to understand. I >>> reinstalled XP via my Dell reinstall CD. Thereafter, I installed the >>> updates via MS, call it Windows or Microsoft Update I don't now remember >>> (are they not the same?). Why should these updates not have installed, >>> when >>> they said they did? More worryingly, I am amazed to be told that such >>> updates are not successful on a reinstall. I would like that confirmed >>> please. I understood from MS announcements that XP would be supported >>> for x >>> years, which is why I and thousands of others bought new PC's with XP >>> and >>> no >>> crap Vista. So where does this doomsday scenario come from? If you >>> can't >>> update following a repair, installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery >>> installs, what is left, and why don't we just pack up and go home!: is >>> how I >>> see it. >>> >>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:%23hGbuy62IHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>>>> ...I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update >>>>> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1 >>>> >>>> Did you install the posst-SP3 updates via Windows Update or manually? >>>> Are >>>> you sure they installed? Perhaps not... >>>> >>>> CrystalBall© sez... >>>> >>>> Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from >>>> Microsoft >>>> Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP >>>> installation: >>>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144 >>>> >>>> NB: Also applies to clean installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery >>>> installs. >>>> -- >>>> ~PA Bear >>>> >>>> >>>> xylophone wrote: >>>>> Many thanks. I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update >>>>> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1, and then in >>>>> Microsoft Update after installing a new Office Home and Student >>>>> Edition. >>>>> I >>>>> assume that in there there were driver updates. >>>>> >>>>> I shall follow your links and learn. You have helped me many times in >>>>> the >>>>> past, and I am most grateful >>>>> >>>>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message >>>>> news:OXgTSXw2IHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>>>>> First of all, see replies to your related post in OE General >>>>>> newsgroup. >>>>>> >>>>>> By any chance did you just install a driver update offered by Windows >>>>>> Update? >>>>>> >>>>>> If not and this is a sudden, new problem that occurred after WinXP >>>>>> SP3 >>>>>> was >>>>>> installed, free unlimited installation and compatibility support is >>>>>> available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 >>>>>> Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United >>>>>> States >>>>>> and >>>>>> Canada. >>>>>> >>>>>> • US: >>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>>> >>>>>> • CA: >>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-ca&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>>> >>>>>> • UK: >>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-gb&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>>> >>>>>> • AU: >>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-au&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>>> >>>>>> • Other: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | >>>>>> select >>>>>> Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3 >>>>>> -- >>>>>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) >>>>>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 >>>>>> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net >>>>>> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> xylophone wrote: >>>>>>> I have XP SP3 on a Dell, with Office 2007 Student and Home, and IE7. >>>>>>> I >>>>>>> can >>>>>>> right click on Desktop/Properties to get the Display Properties, >>>>>>> from >>>>>>> where >>>>>>> I can manipulate the specified font and font sizes to my >>>>>>> satisfaction, >>>>>>> which >>>>>>> I have done. However, none of this seems to have any effect on the >>>>>>> minuscule font sizes that appear elsewhere and over which, for the >>>>>>> life >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> me, I cannot see how I have any control. For example, the Display >>>>>>> Properties box has tiny font sizes, say size 4, Start/Favourites >>>>>>> come >>>>>>> up >>>>>>> in >>>>>>> a tiny size, likewise Start/All Programs. Weird. Start on its own >>>>>>> comes >>>>>>> up >>>>>>> in big fonts. I can read the tiny fonts, but they why this >>>>>>> behaviour >>>>>>> and >>>>>>> how can I adjust these? They are driving me mad?
Guest xylophone Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 Re: Miniscule fonts Thanks. Have done that already. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message news:urzGm$F3IHA.2060@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Open a free support incident, Xylophone. See links in a previous reply of > mine. > > xylophone wrote: >> Thanks. Panic over. >> >> To get back to my original query, do you have any explanation to offer as >> to >> 1) why the fonts I describe are unusually small, and 2) what I can do >> about >> that? >> >> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:eoJb%23S92IHA.2524@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>> If your Update History at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com says the >>> updates were successfully installed, don't worry about it. >>> -- >>> ~PA Bear >>> >>> xylophone wrote: >>>> I'm not sure what the point is here I am supposed to understand. I >>>> reinstalled XP via my Dell reinstall CD. Thereafter, I installed the >>>> updates via MS, call it Windows or Microsoft Update I don't now >>>> remember >>>> (are they not the same?). Why should these updates not have installed, >>>> when >>>> they said they did? More worryingly, I am amazed to be told that such >>>> updates are not successful on a reinstall. I would like that confirmed >>>> please. I understood from MS announcements that XP would be supported >>>> for x >>>> years, which is why I and thousands of others bought new PC's with XP >>>> and >>>> no >>>> crap Vista. So where does this doomsday scenario come from? If you >>>> can't >>>> update following a repair, installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery >>>> installs, what is left, and why don't we just pack up and go home!: is >>>> how I >>>> see it. >>>> >>>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:%23hGbuy62IHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>>>>> ...I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update >>>>>> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1 >>>>> >>>>> Did you install the posst-SP3 updates via Windows Update or manually? >>>>> Are >>>>> you sure they installed? Perhaps not... >>>>> >>>>> CrystalBall© sez... >>>>> >>>>> Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from >>>>> Microsoft >>>>> Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP >>>>> installation: >>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144 >>>>> >>>>> NB: Also applies to clean installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery >>>>> installs. >>>>> -- >>>>> ~PA Bear >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> xylophone wrote: >>>>>> Many thanks. I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows >>>>>> Update >>>>>> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1, and then in >>>>>> Microsoft Update after installing a new Office Home and Student >>>>>> Edition. >>>>>> I >>>>>> assume that in there there were driver updates. >>>>>> >>>>>> I shall follow your links and learn. You have helped me many times >>>>>> in >>>>>> the >>>>>> past, and I am most grateful >>>>>> >>>>>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message >>>>>> news:OXgTSXw2IHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>>>>>> First of all, see replies to your related post in OE General >>>>>>> newsgroup. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> By any chance did you just install a driver update offered by >>>>>>> Windows >>>>>>> Update? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If not and this is a sudden, new problem that occurred after WinXP >>>>>>> SP3 >>>>>>> was >>>>>>> installed, free unlimited installation and compatibility support is >>>>>>> available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until >>>>>>> 14 >>>>>>> Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United >>>>>>> States >>>>>>> and >>>>>>> Canada. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> • US: >>>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> • CA: >>>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-ca&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> • UK: >>>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-gb&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> • AU: >>>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-au&prid=11273&gprid=522131 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> • Other: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | >>>>>>> select >>>>>>> Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3 >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) >>>>>>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 >>>>>>> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net >>>>>>> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> xylophone wrote: >>>>>>>> I have XP SP3 on a Dell, with Office 2007 Student and Home, and >>>>>>>> IE7. >>>>>>>> I >>>>>>>> can >>>>>>>> right click on Desktop/Properties to get the Display Properties, >>>>>>>> from >>>>>>>> where >>>>>>>> I can manipulate the specified font and font sizes to my >>>>>>>> satisfaction, >>>>>>>> which >>>>>>>> I have done. However, none of this seems to have any effect on the >>>>>>>> minuscule font sizes that appear elsewhere and over which, for the >>>>>>>> life >>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>> me, I cannot see how I have any control. For example, the Display >>>>>>>> Properties box has tiny font sizes, say size 4, Start/Favourites >>>>>>>> come >>>>>>>> up >>>>>>>> in >>>>>>>> a tiny size, likewise Start/All Programs. Weird. Start on its own >>>>>>>> comes >>>>>>>> up >>>>>>>> in big fonts. I can read the tiny fonts, but they why this >>>>>>>> behaviour >>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>> how can I adjust these? They are driving me mad? >
Guest sf Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 Re: Miniscule fonts On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:02:38 -0400, "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote: >If not and this is a sudden, new problem that occurred after WinXP SP3 was >installed, free unlimited installation and compatibility support is >available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 >Apr-09. Is SP3 a general update that I wouldn't have noticed happening? My fonts went small a few weeks ago. -- I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond. Mae West
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