Windows Font SIze HELP!

[dlinkwit27]

I messed with some setting, idk wheer, but now my on screen fonts for all programs, windows, ect are small, how do i make them bigger! win XP home. thnx!

[anubis2003]

go to display settings and under the appearance tab change that stuff to your liking.

[Atmo]

2 ways to fix it, either choose a default theme (right click desktop > properties > themes) or click the appearance tab (still in display properties) > advanced and manually assign a font size.

[dlinkwit27]

did all that. what i am worried about is why zonealarm looks liek this?

[dlinkwit27]

as apposed to this (on a diff computer)

[anubis2003]

Can't really see it in the picture - or is that what the text looks like on your monitor? Try editing that programs options.

[Atmo]

Different font? You should be able to change it in the appearance tab.

[dlinkwit27]

even teh winamp playlsit fonts are small!

[anubis2003]

Try restarting windows after changing font sizes in the appearences tab.

[dlinkwit27]

appearance tabs...

all normal and matching both my other computers....

[dlinkwit27]

restarted...still icky. :'( (btw, thnx all for trying to help :up: to y'all)

[Atmo]

I messed with some setting, idk wheer

Try to remember, it looks as though something has stuffed up.

You could try setting the font size to large, but i dont know if it'd help.

[dlinkwit27]

larg makes all the good looking fonts mess up. idk if it was even a setting. I was moving fotns around on my com earlier. I tried to make a .zip file for a frined, but i made a older instead of a zip, and moved my fnts into there, but the fonts enver moved out of teh windoes\fonts directory, so i didn't thik that would be a problem when i deleted teh new folder. but wouldn't the rest of the fotns on screen b skrewey if that ahppened tho? i could do a system restore, but that woudl requiring backing up a lot of stuff, and i sjsut organized all my folders. :(

[iomegajaz]

Display Properties > Themes/Appearance > Advanced > Font size. Set it to 100%, or higher if you want.

If that isn't it...

It looks like you've managed to delete MS Sans Serif. Grab your Windows CD, and go through the CABs to find the font file (TTFs), then copy them all to your windows/fonts dir using DOS prompt. Overwrite any existing files.

Word. Good luck.

[Atmo]

Try backing up all your fonts, then removing and re-installing them.

If that doesnt work, a system restore might.

[dlinkwit27]

Originally posted by iomegajaz
Display Properties > Themes/Appearance > Advanced > Font size. Set it to 100%, or higher if you want.

If that isn't it...

It looks like you've managed to delete MS Sans Serif. Grab your Windows CD, and go through the CABs to find the font file (TTFs), then copy them all to your windows/fonts dir using DOS prompt. Overwrite any existing files.

Word. Good luck.

coudl you tell me teh filename for ms sans serif. I've got my computers networks, do i can jsut copy+move fonts from anther computer to this one, do you think that would work? or do you think i'll need the CD anyway? (the other comptuer has XP Home as well)

[dlinkwit27]

where did everyone go?:(

[anubis2003]

It is "MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24.fon" I believe.

[dlinkwit27]

thank you. /looks

i found it on my EMachine (no lughing) Ima brign it over to this come, and retart, and see what happs. cross you finger y'all!

[Atmo]

The fonts arent in a cabinet file on the xp cd, theyre in the i386 dir, with a _ at the end of the file name (ex: arial.tt_ instead of arial.ttf). But if you have another xp home system without this prob then just copy the fonts from that system.

The standard windows fonts are:

Arial
Arial Alternative Regular
Arial Alternative Symbol
Arial Black
Arial Bold
Arial Bold Italic
Arial Italic
Comic San MS
Comic San MS Bold
Courier 10, 12, 15
Courier New
Courier New Bold
Courier New Italic
Courier New Bold Italic
Impact
Lucida Console
Marlett
MS Sans Serif 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24
MS Serif 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24
Smallfonts
Symbol
Symbol 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24
Tahoma
Tahoma Bold
Times New Roman
Times New Roman Bold
Times New Roman Bold Italic
Times New Roman Italic
Trebuchet
Trebuchet Bold
Trebuchet Bold Italic
Trebuchet Italic
Verdana
Verdana Bold
Verdana Bold Italic
Verdana Italic
Webdings
Westminster

I'd copy them all over to a folder thats easy to remember (like c:\fonts)

To get to a command prompt, you'll need to press F8 at starup, and choose safe mode with command prompt.

Then type: copy c:\fonts\*.* c:\windows\fonts

[dlinkwit27]

You all are officially the most awesome group of people i the world! I transfer from my EMachine over, and now everythign eorks like a charm! Thank you so much! :D:D:D:D:D:up::up::up::up::up:

[iomegajaz]

gw Atmo. Australians can do anything. =)