How do I change the font and icon sizes in Outlook and Desktop?

[DESDUP]

Upon opening my Outlook I saw that all the font and icon sizes were much
smaller than before and now have become hard to read - everything is in the
same font as this message. I cannot seem to find a way to revert to the old
style and I don't know what caused the change.
None of the Help menus cover this and despite restarting the computer a few
times to see if it would clear the problem, it remains the same.
I have Window XP Media (pre-installed on Dell desktop compute) and Outlook
2003 as part of the MS Office 2003 suite. I do not use Outlook Express at all.
Any suggestions or resolutions?

 

[K. Orland]

Is it just Outlook that is hard to read or everything?

 

[DESDUP]

Everything. I tried changing font sizes in Outlook, but overall everything is
smaller; from the desktop through Outlook and even Internet Explorer. I've
also tried to reset the desktop in the control panel under 'display', buty
nothing seems to help. Somewhere between logging off last night and logging
on this morning it changed.
Please let in some light!
Thanks.
Didi

 

[K. Orland]

If you right-click on a blank portion of your desktop and scroll to
Properties, click on the Settings tab and ajust your screen area. What size
monitor do you have and what is the screen area size set to now?
--
Kathleen Orland
Blessed are the crack''d, for it is they who let in the light

http://www.howto-outlook.com/

 

[DESDUP]

I have a 17 or 19 inch flat screen (not sure) and it is currently set to Plug
an Play Monitor on Intel 82915G/910GL Express Chip with 1280 x 1024 screen
resolution and 32bit color. Hope that helps as the only other display option
I have is 'Default Monitor on Intel 82915G/910GL Express Chipset Family'. It
seems to be set to teh max of everything.
The fontstyle that seesm to be operating on all programs looks more like a
bitmap/system font than any other font like Verdura or Ariel. Does that make
sense?
Didi

 

[K. Orland]

Move your slider down a notch to 1024 x 768 pixels and test it. See if that
helps.
--
Kathleen Orland
Blessed are the crack''d, for it is they who let in the light

http://www.howto-outlook.com/

 

[DESDUP]

Kathleen,

I tried that but it was worse and I also tried resetting it from that box to
have larger icons for the desktop. That seemed to work, but then it said I
had to restart the computer and when I did that everything went back to being
as if the computer is running in 'safe' mode.

I have to run out again to see clients and I'll just see what happens when I
start it up tomorrow. I just don't have time to deal with this tonight, but I
truly appreciate your ibput so far - you seem to have an excellent grasp of
the situation. I also don't get any emails in HTML although that's what my
Outlook is set to, so I don't know if that is contributing.

Didi

 

[K. Orland]

It almost sounds as if you have a video card driver issue. You may want to
obtain the latest driver for your video card and install it to see if that
helps.
--
Kathleen Orland
Blessed are the crack''d, for it is they who let in the light

http://www.howto-outlook.com/

 

[DESDUP]

Kathleen,
I think you're right as I see that there was an automatic update from Dell
on Tuesday pertaining to the Plug and Play chipset I previously mentioned. I
wonder if this caused the problem. I think my only solution now is to do a
system restore to 4/17/06 when everything was fine. Idon't use the computer
for the media aspects such as music, games or video, only work so I really
don't care if I lose quality on these aspects, as long as my email and Office
Suite looks right and is legible. Do you know how to do that (system
restore)? If I do need to get e new driver for my video card, where would I
find that? If all this is getting too much hassle, let me know and I'll call
Dell (although I swore I never would again - my last exeprience was a
nightmare) or talk to my Intel tech friend. I don't want to waste your time,
as much as I appreciate the help.
Thanks and regards,
Didi

 

[K. Orland]

No need to torture yourself by calling Dell for a driver issue! I hear
they're improving their technical support but I know what it was like before.
If you know the brand name of your video card, go to the vendor website or
even check the Dell website downloads section to see if you can find out what
it is and if they have a driver available for you to download. You should be
able to put in the model number of your PC to find out, or at least I know
you can do that with another vendor's site.
Try here: http://support.dell.com/support/index.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=gen and
enter your service tag number. If you don't know what your service tag is or
how to find it, there is a link to tell you how. If you can't figure it out,
you can always put in your model number and select Drivers and Downloads to
see if there are any video drivers for your particular model.
Good luck! Let me know how it goes. If that doesn't work for you, post back.
--
Kathleen Orland
Blessed are the crack''d, for it is they who let in the light

http://www.howto-outlook.com/

 

[DESDUP]

K,
Just wanted to let you know I did a system restore and all is absolutely
fine now. I think it was the Dell update on Tuesday that threw a spanner in
the works. I'm also going to reset my update profile to not allow any further
automatic updates.
Thank you SO much for your help and suggestions.
Didi