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Dave Cason - 30 Aug 2004 06:27 GMT

Hi!!

God ! What a PAIN!!!! I have spent the last three days
trying to that darn accessibility wizard to reset my
windows look back to normal!!

I was showing my father who has trouble seeing, the
features that are in XP for people who can't see very
well ..... Mostly the new accessibibly wizard and
maginifier now all my icons are huge and won't shrink back
down and worse of all I can't ANY page in IE to show
itself in it's usual font!

For example in Google I can't get the search field to NOT
show up in a huge font, the screen is OK but the search
box is huge and I can't get it changed back.

I have been searching in windows help and on the web and
there is nothing on how to re-set windows back to normal,
and the help SUCKS in XP!

Man, this should NOT be this hard to go back to NORMAL!!

Anybody who can help..... Thanks !!

Cheers'
Dave

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Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) - 30 Aug 2004 22:09 GMT

To turn off Accessibility features, open Control Panel (click in blue task
pane area for classic view)> Accessibility Options. For each feature,
uncheck the box for "Use <name of feature>. Then click Settings and uncheck
the box next "Use Shortcut."

If the above doesn't resolve it, try using System Restore to take you back
to a time prior to when this began. Start\All Programs\Accessories\System
Tools\System Restore.

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> Hi!!
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> Cheers'
> Dave

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damr - 01 Sep 2004 00:58 GMT

Dave that happened to me once and I had to do a System Restore. Win XP
doesn't have a way to control those accesibility thingies to get back to
normal.Simply you can't reach the buttons of maximize or minimize, anything

Dilsia

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> Cheers'
> Dave

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