10-24-2002, 12:50 AM
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Location: Los Angeles
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Setup for visually impared?
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... |
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10-24-2002, 01:23 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Use Magnifyer. It's built into win2k and XP.
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