I was checking out breaktime when there was an lightning strike nearby that interrupted the power for a second causing my computer to shut down. When I rebooted, I found the the text size had been reduced to the point that I need my reading glasses to read it.
My computer savvy is limited so any advise needs to be like you are talking to a 76 year old and not a 6 year old, if you get my drift.
The changes seem to apply only to breaktime.
Thanks.
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What browser do you use?
I think it's firefox.
Tools -- Options -- Content. Should have Times New Roman 16 as the default font.But if that font was damaged by the crash then you may be getting something else, and that could be the problem.
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This only occurs when I am on breaktime. All other remain the same. Roman 16.
If you have a wheel mouse, press and hold the [CTRL] key and roll the wheel. That might fix you up.Quite the light show last night, huh?
TFB (Bill)
You are so smart. That fixed it.
The only other thing that occurred is that is seemed to have reduced the size of heading across the top of the page where it says "FineHomebuilding.com. and when I, for example post something like this reply, I have the total width of the screen showing. That is not a problem though. Just different.
I look at lighten strike as an excuse to upgrade. 'but honey, lighten kill the computer, and the tv, we need a new flat screen anyway"
I'm about as tech savvy as you, but I know there's a way to adjust the size of the print, because my DH did for my father in law to be able to read the screen.
Your post just reminded me of a story in Readers Digest about a lady sitting in front of the computer in their basement, when lighting struck about 10 feet from the house. Knocked her out of her chair, and for a couple of weeks, whenever she touched the computer it would turn off, and she only had to touch the TV remote to change channels, etc.
She would periodically have seizures from residual electricity in her body.
And the lesson is...unplug your computer during a lightning storm?