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by bob a

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My organzation recently purchase 5 new computers. All with basically the same specs hardware/software all using Win 2K. When you open a browser window on two of them, the text fills the screen. On the three others the text is smaller and only takes up 2/3 of the browser window. A prime example is msn.com. On two of them the width of the page matches exactly the open browser window and the other three the font is alot smaller and does not fill the window.
We've messed with the display propertysetting and changed them to be appropriate to the monitor size and changed the text size in IE under View. We also set played with the accesibilty options under IE tools options, to no avail. Any other ideas? I can't find anything under the Microsoft Knowledge Base, but I find it to be hit or miss most of the time!

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by ann777

I assume they all have the same video cards and what is probably set different is the display settings.

GO to Control Panel --> Display --> Settings --> Advanced and make sure the Font Size is the same on all the computers.

Probably two different people setup the computers and they set their preferred screen font sizes.

by ann777

I re-read your question....

Is this only happening in Explorer? Or does it happen on the Windows desktop as well?

The above response is for Windows 2000 as a whole. Are all your screen fonts larger... or just Internet Explorer?

by fenaikh

Hi
I would isolate the problem in this way to see if it is a hardware or a software issue.
Try the monitor which working ok with one of the not ok.Then try to the display adapter too.
Download the newest driver from the display adapter site. Make sure in the setting that the drivers for the display card and the montor are the same. Check the nobes or hardware setting for the monitor (adjustment nobs). move the Whole pc to the same out let in place of the good one to see if any magnet or electric field is effecting the monitor or even power. Do they have the same power suplly in the case. Use UPS to see if power stabel..

Good luck

Mohamed

by bob a

I'm going to go back and take a second look to be sure that all the settings are the same. The complaint I'm receiving is that the font sizes on web pages (msn.com, in particular)is very small and does not fill the open browser window. Let mecheck the settings on Tuesday and I'll give you some more info then!

by tg2

explorer has a font viewing option under the VIEW menu.

View -> Text Size -> smallest .... largest

if you hold down the ctrl or shift (can't recall which) and then use the scroll wheel on a wheel mouse, it will increase or decrease the size ofthe font.

I would caution however, don't do it.. I had problems getting IE to display all pages the same after this... ended up reinstalling... made it all less painful.

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