Aol 7.0 jacked up my IE

[tteknos]

Even though i've demanded it never be done, my little sister installed Aol 7.0 on my XP machine the other day. I removed it right away of course, but have some problems, well 1 actually. The font has been changed or something. The text is all smaller, more compact. Anything in grey is not legible, looks like scribbles. Heck trying to goto windowsupdate.microsoft.com to maybe re-download IE is impossible cuse all the text on that page is illegable. I've checked the fonts selected with IE on other machines, and they're identical. All the settings seem to be the same. Any ideas besides re-formatting would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Ted

 

[tteknos]

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[iowtech]

Have you tried just increasing the font size in IE?

View -> Text Size -> select largest.

Does this help?

 

[tteknos]

Yea it didn't seem to work. It's really weird I tell ya. It's like it's using a different font all together, but it's showing the same as Default IE.

 

[SQLBill]

tteknos,

I don't have a solution for you, but I have a suggestion to keep it from happening again.

I suggest that you create a user account for your sister and assign it as a 'limited account'. Limited users cannot load software.

If you are the only one with administrator logon privileges, only you can load software.

-Bill

 

[tteknos]

I don't have users on my PC. Noone's to touch my PC but me. I leave it logged in all the time. If I shoot out to the gas station or something, everyone's too lazy to sit on the shitty PC, so they sit on mine and screw things up =). I had screen savers and screen saver passwords. I refuse to log out due to all the crap I have open. I just like being difficult =)

Ted

 

[SQLBill]

Ted,

XP has a 'neat' feature if you create user accounts. Create two accounts, one for you with admin privileges and one for everyone else with limited privileges. When you get off the computer, select Start > Log off and when the log off screen comes up choose 'Switch User'. That keeps you logged on, your programs running, others can use the computer but can't 'mess' with it too much (since you give them limited privileges). Then when you get back on your computer, log them off and log back in as yourself.


-Bill