Re: Dialog boxes appear too small

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:26:35 +0100, James Luff <james.luff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote the following to uk.comp.misc:


I don't have access to his machine until after the weekend now, but I
can promise you he isn't using large fonts. His DPI is set to normal,
all the individual text items are normal and there are no themes
running. Please bear in mind this problem was transferred from Windows
'98 to Windows XP when I formatted and installed from fresh.

So with this in mind, what else could it be?

Corrupt fonts can sometimes cause problems like these. What happens when he
tries to view the fonts in Character Map? The main font used by the UI is
Tahoma, but also check System, MS Serif, MS Sans Serif, Trebuchet, Fixedsys,
Marlett, Courier and Roman.

Marlett is used by the "classic" theme to draw window buttons and you can
get some strange effects if it gets corrupted. Seee
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];134861 for details
(this is Win95 but might provide background information)

Most of the others are fairly old fonts that have been around since at least
Win3.1 but they do sometimes get used for system purposes. It would be
useful to have a screenshot of one of these dialog boxes to understand
better what the problem is. Probably easiest to do it through something like
http://www.imageshack.us/

Also, what happens if he changes the settings and then changes them back?

mh.
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