General Computer Help

[uniman]

Thanks for the post TJ.
I just finished running the "combofix" about 1/2 hour ago. So far so good. If the problem returns I'll follow the steps you posted.
Some of those I had done previously including downloading the two recent updates.
I too believe it was a corrupted update that caused this. Hope it's gone now.


                                                    THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP!!!

 

[stayouttadabunker]

I have a question...I'm running XP on a 21" square Dell display monitor using Mozilla Firefox as my web browser.
It seems that I remember buying this monitor because web pages were getting bigger and wider.
It seems that I used to have to scroll up and down to see the whole web page, now I'm ever increasing scrolling side to side.
Are web pages generally getting too big for our monitors nowadays?
It really doesn't matter if I use a wide screen monitor either, or use the option of "Full Screen"
What really gets me is that if I change the screen resolution to "1024 X 768",  I STILL have to scroll side to side, though not as much.
Plus the fonts really get too small when the screen resolution is set to that....
Do web pages have side margins?
Any ideas?  Make the fonts bigger while in a different screen resolution?

[StatFreak]

Any ideas?  Make the fonts bigger while in a different screen resolution?

Exactly.

I'm running 1280x800 on a 15 inch laptop. With a 19 inch monitor I would be running a minimum of 1600x1200 or better.

Firefox has an interesting feature in the Zoom menu. If you click on View/Zoom/Zoom Text Only and then zoom, only the text will get bigger. It's pretty cool. So if you increase your monitor's resolution, you shouldn't have to scroll horizontally on the majority of web sites, and if the text is too small to read, you can use FireFox's zoom function with the Text Only option checked and the rest of the page won't end up off the end of your monitor.

<ADD> To zoom in and out quickly in Firefox, hold down the <Ctrl> key and use the wheel on your mouse. To quickly get back to normal zoom, just click <Ctrl> 0.

[stayouttadabunker]

yes,
I like that in firefox...
I think rick posted that move last week....
I think I'm going to have to buy a widescreen about the size of my tv to fit web pages soon.

[StatFreak]

He did, but he didn't mention the "Zoom Text Only" feature.