Re: Miniscule fonts
I'm not sure what the point is here I am supposed to understand. I
reinstalled XP via my Dell reinstall CD. Thereafter, I installed the
updates via MS, call it Windows or Microsoft Update I don't now remember
(are they not the same?). Why should these updates not have installed, when
they said they did? More worryingly, I am amazed to be told that such
updates are not successful on a reinstall. I would like that confirmed
please. I understood from MS announcements that XP would be supported for x
years, which is why I and thousands of others bought new PC's with XP and no
crap Vista. So where does this doomsday scenario come from? If you can't
update following a repair, installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery
installs, what is left, and why don't we just pack up and go home!: is how I
see it.
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23hGbuy62IHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> ...I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update
>> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1
>
> Did you install the posst-SP3 updates via Windows Update or manually? Are
> you sure they installed? Perhaps not...
>
> CrystalBall© sez...
>
> Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft
> Update, or by using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP
> installation:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144
>
> NB: Also applies to clean installs, upgrade installs, and Recovery
> installs.
> --
> ~PA Bear
>
>
> xylophone wrote:
>> Many thanks. I did install a whole wadge of updates in Windows Update
>> immediately after reinstalling Windows to SP3 from SP1, and then in
>> Microsoft Update after installing a new Office Home and Student Edition.
>> I
>> assume that in there there were driver updates.
>>
>> I shall follow your links and learn. You have helped me many times in
>> the
>> past, and I am most grateful
>>
>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:OXgTSXw2IHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> First of all, see replies to your related post in OE General newsgroup.
>>>
>>> By any chance did you just install a driver update offered by Windows
>>> Update?
>>>
>>> If not and this is a sudden, new problem that occurred after WinXP SP3
>>> was
>>> installed, free unlimited installation and compatibility support is
>>> available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14
>>> Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States
>>> and
>>> Canada.
>>>
>>> • US:
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11273&gprid=522131
>>>
>>> • CA:
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-ca&prid=11273&gprid=522131
>>>
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>>> select
>>> Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3
>>> --
>>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
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>>>
>>> xylophone wrote:
>>>> I have XP SP3 on a Dell, with Office 2007 Student and Home, and IE7. I
>>>> can
>>>> right click on Desktop/Properties to get the Display Properties, from
>>>> where
>>>> I can manipulate the specified font and font sizes to my satisfaction,
>>>> which
>>>> I have done. However, none of this seems to have any effect on the
>>>> minuscule font sizes that appear elsewhere and over which, for the life
>>>> of
>>>> me, I cannot see how I have any control. For example, the Display
>>>> Properties box has tiny font sizes, say size 4, Start/Favourites come
>>>> up
>>>> in
>>>> a tiny size, likewise Start/All Programs. Weird. Start on its own
>>>> comes
>>>> up
>>>> in big fonts. I can read the tiny fonts, but they why this behaviour
>>>> and
>>>> how can I adjust these? They are driving me mad?
>