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Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :

Last night I unplugged my laptop and ran it on the battery for a little while. The battery died before I expected, though, and when it booted this morning the display is strange - big icons and big fonts and not our normal setting colors. This has happened before when the battery died (our battery has never worked very well) and my husband usually solved the problem by reinstalling windows. The icons really irritate him. I think that's kind of drastic, but I don't know why this happens or how to fix it. Anyone know what to do?

Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :

I'm assuming your husband tried the obvious - readjusting the display/resolution settings - before reinstalling Windows.

Maybe the button cell battery needs to be replaced. When this happens, do the time and date get messed up, too?

Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :

I wouldn't assume that either he or I know enough to try the right things. We both fiddled around but aren't computer savvy enough to accomplish anything except by chance.

The time and date seem ok. Everything seems kind of fuzzy, though, which I should have mentioned in my first post.

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

If you right click on the desktop, go to properties, and then click on the settings tab, you can check the screen resolution. More than likely, that just got messed up. If the slider is all the way to the left, move it all the way to the right (Or find somewhere in between).

Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :

Hey, that worked! I am going to go lord it over my husband now. Thanks Boris, you saved my computer (and me...) from his reinstalling wrath!

Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :

[Smile]

I'm glad it was that simple. Computers can be such a pain sometimes.

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Lissande:
Hey, that worked! I am going to go lord it over my husband now. Thanks Boris, you saved my computer (and me...) from his reinstalling wrath!

You have my permission to make him think you came up with it yourself [Big Grin]