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Anyone running Windows 7?

muleman

muleman

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Wife's new laptop has it on it and certain things are just a PITA to find or change. The display properties sure does not allow much customization or I am not looking in the right place. I can not seem to get text to display bigger without changing icons also. Any ideas?
 
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In the browser you can make the text bigger with <control & +> smaller with <control & -> & = and ...don't hit that key with the others.
 
Mark, I used that page to set it to 125% earlier. I have no clue why the firefox display is hollow between the top bars and the screen wallpaper shows in the gaps. Between firefox 10 and windows7 and the whine about it I am ready to do like that dad did. I am giving some thought about rolling back Firefox and see if that helps. I have 10 on my desktop and the stop,and reload buttons just will not display even following the safe mode firefox directions.:hammer::hammer::hammer:
 
Since going to Windows 7 I've stuck with IE 9 that came installed. It works well and though I used firefox I was never a fan of it since it always loaded slow on my XP machines.
 
Coming from XP, Windows 7 SUCKS!!!! Can't emphasize that enough.

Outlook Express works... All the time, every time. Not even available in the new Windows suite of shit. I can't get any e-mail in Windows 7 to work and it crashes at least 2x daily.
Compatibility... another BS f'ing upgrade. What happened to backwards compatibility??

Yea, I'll live with it but believe it's a POS.
 
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Doc said:
In the browser you can make the text bigger with <control & +> smaller with <control & -> & = and ...don't hit that key with the others.
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Holding control and turning the mouse wheel works also.

Bob
 
Those things all work as does the zoom control on my keyboard. Why can't you do permanent parameter sets so it stays that way. Maybe like Zoomer, I am just too used to Xp. I could go back on a multitude of O/S I have run on and they all had pretty flexible parameters and easy to use macros. Might have to setup an admin. account and see if they hid things in there. It sure is not an easy transition like it should be.
 
Just screwed my screen up figuring this out but hopefully I can restore it as easily. Running Firefox click open then open options. Then open options again on pop up window. This will open a panel of options choices. Choose content option and then choose to go advanced then look at minimum fount size... Mine was set on none... I just for instance of this post reset that perimeter to 18 and believe me now everything is plenty big and easy to read..If that's what you're actually needing...

Now back to restoring my regular programing :ermm:
 
I found out how to get the buttons to display. In Firefox you select view and navigation toolbars. Then customize and select display text and icons. Will look at what you suggested Bamby. Not awake enough for that yet.
 
I like Win 7. I was leery of trying it but from day one I have found it more stable and just as customizable as XP. Once you get the little glitches ironed out I'd bet you will like Win 7 also Muley.
 
Well they like to hide things in different places to screw with us old folks with dementia coming on.:hammer::hammer: Still have a lot of little individual things to tweak for her laptop. I got the one text macro working for email address and will look into getting the window to fill properly later. She is so wound up having a blazing fast computer to play facebook games on that I have to wait till she goes away or out to the greenhouse to work on it.:whistling:
 
Microsoft has always changed the place of it's widgets. Drives me crazy. You know what you want to do but you have to click in an entirely different place to get the task done. Makes no sense at all.

Win 7 does not come with an email client. Microsoft has one available for free. It is called: Live Mail. Weird name for a client but that is what it is.

There are a few other email clients that are free and up to the task of handling your email. Here are a couple I've run into.

http://www.claws-mail.org/win32/

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
- It's open source.
- It's very light, doesn't even need installation, it runs from an unzipped folder.
- Its interface is like a clone of Outlook Express.
- Unlike Thunderbird, the default font size is OK.
- Basic options, for those that don't want to do fancy stuff with their mail client, but just want the job done easily and quickly, without getting lost in 1000 menus and submenus.
 
I don't like Live Mail as it crashes daily on my new computer. I'm in the process of installing Thunderbird but may go with one of Doc's options instead.
 
Thunderbird seemed over complicated and it crashed on me after my email box was rather large. Outlook express never had that issue.

One more outlook like FREE email client you might want to consider: http://emclient.com/
 
I agree, Win7 is not as friendly as XP, but I need some of the communication and driver features of 7, so that it what I am now using.

Mostly use Firefox 12.0 - have no problems with it.
 
bbobbit42 said:
I agree, Win7 is not as friendly as XP, but I need some of the communication and driver features of 7, so that it what I am now using.

Mostly use Firefox 12.0 - have no problems with it.
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Nothing was as friendly as XP, but XP was a 32 bit system and Win 7 is a 64 bit system. Change is a bitch but if you can't roll with it your just getting old. Imagine yourself with a comforable Comadore.
 
I have had a Windows 7 business 64 bit now for two years and I would not go back to xp any more. To me 7 is so much easier to maneuver around in.
 
thcri said:
I have had a Windows 7 business 64 bit now for two years and I would not go back to xp any more. To me 7 is so much easier to maneuver around in.
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I'm with you after getting over the changes from XP, Windows 7 is a better system that is more logical in its design. I skipped Vista but glad I went to 7 now that I've had it a while. I have Win 7 Pro on both the office and my laptop now.
 
I got things pretty well set for her. At least she quit bitchin about it.:whistling:The real headfuck is running XP on my pc and then try to fix something in 7 on hers.:hammer:
 
Only thing I really don't like about it is the paint but a websearch found me XP Paint that runs on Win 7 works fine.
 
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