ride2bhi
10-23-2002, 11:50 PM
Hello,
Setting up an old computer to give to someone who doesn't see very well. It is a Dell 450 Pentium II with 384 mb ram and a 32 mb ATI All-In-Wonder video card. I am setting up the computer with a Planar 17.4 LCD and Windows 2000. The problem I am having is that she doesn't see very well, so I need to set the fonts and icons to larger sizes. Normally I would set the display properties to 800x600 and that would solve the problem. Unfortunately with the hardware configuration I have, the Planar won't let me resize with out shrinking the viewable area on the screen, leaving a black border around the edge(imagine an 800x600 sized desktop image in the middle of a 1280x1024 display). The 1280x1024 setting is the only one that fills the entire screen and I have found no way to change this. So my very long winded question is---What is the best way to configure Windows 2000 so that all the text and icons on all the programs are large? Is there a disability tab that would take care of this? In explorer I changed the view text to large, but only the text that isn't controlled by the CSS changed. Any help would be appreciated...
Setting up an old computer to give to someone who doesn't see very well. It is a Dell 450 Pentium II with 384 mb ram and a 32 mb ATI All-In-Wonder video card. I am setting up the computer with a Planar 17.4 LCD and Windows 2000. The problem I am having is that she doesn't see very well, so I need to set the fonts and icons to larger sizes. Normally I would set the display properties to 800x600 and that would solve the problem. Unfortunately with the hardware configuration I have, the Planar won't let me resize with out shrinking the viewable area on the screen, leaving a black border around the edge(imagine an 800x600 sized desktop image in the middle of a 1280x1024 display). The 1280x1024 setting is the only one that fills the entire screen and I have found no way to change this. So my very long winded question is---What is the best way to configure Windows 2000 so that all the text and icons on all the programs are large? Is there a disability tab that would take care of this? In explorer I changed the view text to large, but only the text that isn't controlled by the CSS changed. Any help would be appreciated...