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Emily
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      12-06-2007
Hello,

I'm having a problem and I need help! I changed the text size and icons of
my laptop in Control Panel > Appearance and personalization > Personalization
> Adjust font size (DPI), from the default (96 DPI) to the larger scale (120

DPI). I want to change it back now, but when I followed the steps to set it
to the default scale (96 DPI) again, and restarted, no change was made. It's
been two days now and in that time I have followed the steps exactly as they
are described and restarted 4 times. Still no change! It appears that the
text and icons are permanantly set to large scale (120 DPI), help! What can I
do to get the text and icons back to the default size?

Thank you so much for your help!

Emily
 
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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
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      12-07-2007
"Emily" <> wrote in message
news:4680985C-BE41-43CF-9F02-...
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a problem and I need help! I changed the text size and icons of
> my laptop in Control Panel > Appearance and personalization >
> Personalization
>> Adjust font size (DPI), from the default (96 DPI) to the larger scale
>> (120

> DPI). I want to change it back now, but when I followed the steps to set
> it
> to the default scale (96 DPI) again, and restarted, no change was made.
> It's
> been two days now and in that time I have followed the steps exactly as
> they
> are described and restarted 4 times. Still no change! It appears that the
> text and icons are permanantly set to large scale (120 DPI), help! What
> can I
> do to get the text and icons back to the default size?
>
> Thank you so much for your help!
>
> Emily


It might be a security program blocking the Registry change it needs to
make. A few, but not all, of the programs now doing this are:
Ad-aware's Ad-Watch
IBM Access Connections
McAfee VirusScan and/or Antispyware
Norton AV
Spyware Blaster
Spybot> Tools> IE Tweaks
Spybot- Teatimer
Spysweeper
Spyware Doctor
Windows Defender
Zone Alarm (free) 6.5 Reported to be fixed in later versions.

In the case of Zone Alarm 6.5 or Norton 2007 it actually has to be
uninstalled. Make sure the Windows Firewall is turned on until you
reinstall Zone Alarm.

Boot into Safe Mode with Networking and try the change.

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