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ucicare
08-19-2006, 10:08 AM
My Internet Explore has a little habit of changing the text size randomly. I set it to medium, and for no reason it changes to extra large or smallest on it's own. It does it all the time.

I have run virus scanners and Webroot spyscanner. No luck.

I do have a hard drive going bad. I have a new one coming next week, and I am going to break down and upgrade to Win XP. I can't imagine that the drive could be the problem, but I don't want to transfer anything to the new drive.

The problem started when I changed my service provider from Bellsouth DSL to Mediacom High Speed Cable. (Mediacom is the devil)

It is driving me crazy.

Also, I can't get auto logon to work for Fugly anymore. I check the box that says "log on automatically" but it won't save my info.

Help please before I cure the problem with my hammer.


Barry
Dwaine Scum
08-19-2006, 11:09 AM
hold shift, and move the scroll wheel on your mouse up and down to resize in IE

then immediatly, goto www.mozilla.com and d/l firefox, never use IE again. I assume you are on Win98 and you are having upgrade woes... callme bunboy I'll explain it to you
MAJ Havoc
08-19-2006, 01:23 PM
In XP, CTRL with the scroll wheel adjusts size. SHIFT will go back and forth between pages.
DrBungle
08-19-2006, 02:29 PM
Alt+F4.
Nicodemus
08-19-2006, 03:30 PM
Aw hell, just hit them all at the same time and see what happens.
Joeslogic
08-19-2006, 04:39 PM
These guys are all a bunch of dorks

[Tools]: [options]: Center left near the bottom [fonts]

Question is why, but you are not the only one I get nurses and admin people from some hospitals asking the same question. Seems specific to the institution in questions ie security settings and I have not drilled it completely down yet.
phatboy
08-19-2006, 10:02 PM
I think Dwaine has the right idea, get the file FireFox Setup 1.5.0.4 and install it. Win98 is a turd. IE is also a turd....
ucicare
08-19-2006, 10:34 PM
I think Dwaine has the right idea, get the file FireFox Setup 1.5.0.4 and install it. Win98 is a turd. IE is also a turd....

New hardrive and XP next week.
phatboy
08-20-2006, 08:05 PM
You know dell has some pretty sweet deals goin on now with Dual Cores and Flat Panel LCDs. I think 419 was the one I got in an email at work. Not a bad deal, 17" LCD.......
DrBungle
08-21-2006, 10:05 AM
And their laptops come with exploding batteries!
phatboy
08-21-2006, 10:07 AM
Not the new ones, just the old ones.

I have over 50 dell laptops(at work) and not one of them has exploded. Now the mouse has gone batty a few times, but thats just from people abusing the nipple in the middle of the keyboard....
Lomotil
08-22-2006, 02:15 AM
thats just from people abusing the nipple in the middle of the keyboard....

I miss those... It's comforting to know that they still make those things... :)
phatboy
08-22-2006, 07:33 AM
I cant use the nipple on my laptop keyboard, my 'sausage' fingers are too big..... :P