Posted on 01/27/2005 6:15:12 PM PST by Blue Highway
Usually when you click on a post, the person's name that started the thread was in bold as well as the [reply] [private reply] [view replies] [report abuse] Blue Highway tags at the bottom. It has shrunken these into a smaller font and no longer bold. Wha happenin? I didn't change any settings and I am logged in as normal.
Looks that way to me. Been at the brown acid?
Go back up and punch the view button on the browser. then punch text size then choose a larger text size, mine shrinks occasionally and all by itself. I consider it a lovable glitch brought to me personally by the great Kahunas in Washington state.
Did your web browser settings change at all?
IE has under the 'view' option above the toolbat a 'text size' option.
Sometimes that gets messed with through random acts of cats sitting on your keyboard.
(Personal experience a few days ago.)
No brown acid. I don't even know what that is.
using AOL? They like to control everything.
Maybe I did something with the screen resolution to cause this, I will check Windows appearance properties AND my sanity.
The body text is the normal size as always, just the tags at the bottom have shrunk for some odd reason, that I can't explain, and no acid or other hallucinogens, just coffee earlier today.
it's a woodstock inferance.
"so i've been told"
This is how my text size is usually set at. Note how the bottom tags are shrunken compared to the body text? Very unusual.
I did install that new browser last night K- Meleon, but Iam usuing IE 6.0 like I normally do. Maybe K-Meleon is fighting for dominance and screwing with my IE settings so I switch for good...
Once in a blue moon without the intrusion of worms virii or trojans, data will be lost from the hard drive due to corruption or 'misplaced' by defragmenting.
(Very rare)
Not sure what could have happened in your case as an entire address book file is kinda hard for that to happen to.
I could see info within it being corrupted.
If you have norton utilities, open Norton Unerase and see if it got dumped for some odd reason first.
After that, update virus definitions and scan repeatedly.
Sometimes there is a virus and the scan misses it on the first pass.
It is possible a worm or trojan did that, yes.
That actually is the most likely reason.
But check the unerase files (if an option) and scan again after updating virus definitions.
Yesterday I got dusted with a neat little deal that remapped the "Alt + Left arrow" hotkey to my "O" key.
No data corruption at the moment, but it took awhile to clean the machine.
Thanks darksheare. I will do as you advised when I get back home tommorrow.
Welcome.
I will admit that I am only 'good' at diagnosing and fixing a machine if I am physically looking at it and able to see some of it's behavior.
You can also download some malware removers called Spybot Search & Destroy, and Lavasoft's Ad Aware.
http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
http://www.lavasoft.com/support/download/#free
Same problem exists still. I verified that the smallest setting on a friends computer still has show the bold tags on this forum not like the second example I posted in #10. What would be causing this on my computer? Can someone set their view to smallest and tell me which of the 2 examples in my post#10 their forum appears. (Note when scanning threads, all appears normal UNTIL you open a thread, and then it appears differnet.)
Been mulling it over, and haven't been able ot come up with anything definitive.
Below the text size option for IE under the view options, there is something called 'encoding'.
I have mine set to "Western European (ISO)" at the moment.
Setting it to "Western European (Windows)" has some minor effect, but nothing truly outstanding as to be obvious at this point.
Have you installed any new fonts lately?
I'm currently using Windows default Times New Roman.
Changing fonts, even to one similar to TNR, can make things display oddly.
There is a setting to tell the browser to ignore webpage formatting, but at the moment can't recall where it's stuck in Windows.
Just a thought... Did you try that famous cure-all for Ills-of-Anything-Microsoft otherwise known as "reboot"??
I keep telling you to quit using that hack-prone, insecure offering from Redmond otherwise known as Internet dEstroyer..
I set the web fonts to Arial. Setting it back to Times New Roman and voila, problem solved.
Just for fun set your web fonts to Arial and look back over this thread, only then will you see what I meant in post#10, and basically everyone must have thought I was on something as only in Arial does it change the fonts like that, so post#10 looks like 2 duplicate settings, but in Arial you see what I was trying to say.
By the way, how would I go about re-mapping 3 keys on the keyboard that stopped working (B,N and SPACE)? Can I set like [shift] + f8 or something equally as convenient?
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