it makes me miss vista
October 15, 2010 1:25 PM Subscribe
Please help me with my new computer's unwanted text re-sizing issues.
My old computer died, I bought a hp with windows 7 and I use firefox. If I leave it unattended so it sleeps and I wake it up with a jiggle of the mouse or tap of the keyboard everything on the display, icons, text, toolbar, taskbar, jumps up to read-it-across-the-room size.
It will go back to normal if I restart but I would like a one time fix instead of a several times a day fix. Thanks for your time.
My old computer died, I bought a hp with windows 7 and I use firefox. If I leave it unattended so it sleeps and I wake it up with a jiggle of the mouse or tap of the keyboard everything on the display, icons, text, toolbar, taskbar, jumps up to read-it-across-the-room size.
It will go back to normal if I restart but I would like a one time fix instead of a several times a day fix. Thanks for your time.
Check your video driver's settings. AMD/ATI video cards have their crappy "CCC" control thing that adds a lot of hotkeys and crap to the system. I don't know if nVidia does it too, but wouldn't surprise me.
HP laptops usually have a hotkey system for the buttons above the keyboard (usually media stuff), so check that.
posted by Old'n'Busted at 1:50 PM on October 15, 2010
HP laptops usually have a hotkey system for the buttons above the keyboard (usually media stuff), so check that.
posted by Old'n'Busted at 1:50 PM on October 15, 2010
Double-check your Accessibility settings (except they don't call them "Accessibility" settings anymore), as well as mouse and keyboard settings. for instance, if I change my middle mouse button to be "Magnify" instead of "Middle-click", it does something similar to what you are describing.
posted by misterbrandt at 2:37 PM on October 15, 2010
posted by misterbrandt at 2:37 PM on October 15, 2010
Response by poster: Well there is no fancy screen saver it just goes black after ten and sleep after twenty.
The only video driver that I found was the windows media player and I don't think it is that.
I have been through pretty much all the settings that I can find and do not see any thing that looks applicable.
I am pretty low on computer knowledge so any more ideas would be greatly appreciated.
posted by Iron Rat at 5:18 PM on October 15, 2010
The only video driver that I found was the windows media player and I don't think it is that.
I have been through pretty much all the settings that I can find and do not see any thing that looks applicable.
I am pretty low on computer knowledge so any more ideas would be greatly appreciated.
posted by Iron Rat at 5:18 PM on October 15, 2010
I'm not familiar with 7, but next time it happens check if your display settings have been changed to something like 640x480. If so, instead of restarting you can change it back to 1280x1024 or whatever your LCD native resolution is, but it's also a clue. Another thing I'd try is setting it to use an actual screen saver instead of just blank screen, see if that's the problem.
posted by hungrysquirrels at 6:23 PM on October 15, 2010
posted by hungrysquirrels at 6:23 PM on October 15, 2010
Windows Media Player is not a video driver; you might be confusing it's use of a video codec, which is used to encode/decode compressed video.
Right click on your desktop, select Screen Resolution. Look for and click the blue link text titled "Advanced Settings" (do NOT get me started on the links vs buttons shit in Vista/Win7). This will bring up the properties page for the monitor + video card. This will vary from system to system, so I'll list the tabs you will have (Adapter, Monitor, Troubleshoot, Color Management) - anything else is added by the video card driver. Click that tab (or tabs) and see what is what. And post what it has as a video card adapter in the Adapter tab so we know what you're working with. You might also want to google for that video driver with your problem and see what pops.
Oh, and fwiw, Accessibility is now called "Ease of Access"
posted by Old'n'Busted at 6:53 PM on October 15, 2010
Right click on your desktop, select Screen Resolution. Look for and click the blue link text titled "Advanced Settings" (do NOT get me started on the links vs buttons shit in Vista/Win7). This will bring up the properties page for the monitor + video card. This will vary from system to system, so I'll list the tabs you will have (Adapter, Monitor, Troubleshoot, Color Management) - anything else is added by the video card driver. Click that tab (or tabs) and see what is what. And post what it has as a video card adapter in the Adapter tab so we know what you're working with. You might also want to google for that video driver with your problem and see what pops.
Oh, and fwiw, Accessibility is now called "Ease of Access"
posted by Old'n'Busted at 6:53 PM on October 15, 2010
If you could take a screenshot of the "broken" version, that might help somebody figure out the cause. If you have Windows Home Premium or higher, you can apparently do this with the "Snipping tool", or download a tool like ScreenSnapr, which will post it to the web for you.
posted by misterbrandt at 9:58 AM on October 16, 2010
posted by misterbrandt at 9:58 AM on October 16, 2010
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