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- Looking back at Windows Screen Saver Easter Eggs
- Windows developers hid a lot of Easter Eggs in Screen Savers. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Easter Egg, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Greg Shultz, screenshots, Easter Eggs, Microsoft, screen savers, windows, microsoft, software, office, off-topic, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., Font, Microsoft Word 2000, Dialog Box, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites
- Image galleries 2007-09-20
- Looking back at Microsoft Word Easter Eggs
- Microsoft’s developers hid multiple Easter Eggs in Word 95/97/2000. by Greg Shultz
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., geekend, screenshots, Easter Eggs, Microsoft, Word, windows, microsoft, software, office, off-topic, Font, Microsoft Word 2000, Dialog Box, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, TechRepublic Inc., Easter Egg, Greg Shultz
- Image galleries 2007-08-23
- Change the font Windows XP displays in Windows Explorer
- Windows XP uses the same font for desktop icons and Windows Explorer. If the font is too hard to read, you can change its size or the font itself with a few mouse clicks. Here's how to adjust the look of your system fonts. Windows Explorer and My Computer...
- Tags: Greg Shultz, Windows, Windows XP, desktops, Windows XP Tips Newsletter, Microsoft Windows Explorer, Font, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2007-06-27
- Download an extension to learn more about Windows XP fonts
- If you're curious to learn more about the fonts on your Windows XP machine, there's a free and handy extension that will give you the scoop. It also helps you see which fonts are already on your machine. The Fonts folder, located in the Control Panel, provides a ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Font, Greg Shultz, Windows, Windows XP, desktops, Windows XP Tips Newsletter, Microsoft Windows
- Technical articles 2007-06-20
- IE fonts changed!
- For some reason, my IE (version 6.0.29) has suddenly started displaying web sites with huge bolded fonts. I have tried to change things in the Tools/Internet Options menu, but nothing changes the fonts.I have no idea how this happened, but it's so annoying!Anyone know what I need to do...
- Tags: cindyh@..., font, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- Icons Background
- I have faced this weird issue in windows xp. For some reason all my desktop icon fonts have a background typically a colour which u choose in desktop properties however when i log on as an administrator all my desktop icons are normal i mean tranparent without any background. I...
- Tags: desktop, kool_kutub@..., font
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
- Font files, .ttf changed to .dat files
- A friend sent me some .ttf files, but if I save them to a folder and then look at the files, they are .dat files and won't open with the Windows Font Viewer.Tried changing the file association, but no luck.Running Windows XP Pro, SP2.Recently made changes to PC via Services...
- Tags: ttf, rush4th@..., windows, font
- Discussion threads 2007-02-07
- Text squares.
- Ok. I installed Windows XP, then SP 2 on the machine Im using now. Everything has turned out good apart from the text. For example. When I open "My Computer" everything is readable, the "Control Panel" says Control Panel, etc etc... But when I insert a disk, Say "CyberLink PowerDVD...
- Tags: Control Panel, Juggernath, font, squares, text squares, windows, software, text, my computer, Tahoma font
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- change font color in a file name
- Seems like this should be an easy thing to do but I sure can't figure it out. I have a folder containing a large number of files. I would like to change the font color of a few of the file names so that they would stand out...
- Tags: file names, font, windows, woodswater@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-15
- VB5 EOM font problem in Windows XP
- I have a VB5 LISTBOX that contains a report of "boxs" ala MS LINEDRAW. In Windows 98, I specified CHARSET=255 for the LISTBOX, and everything is fine. However, the exact same EXE run on a Windows XP machine has the "new" windows character set instead of my nice...
- Tags: font, hardware, Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, programming, software, TDemis@..., vb5, windows, windows 98, windows xp
- Discussion threads 2007-01-13
- change the fonts of e-mail headers
- Hi,whenever i change the theme of my system, the color of my outlook header also changes. So at times, when i have a light colored theme, it goes totally transperent. Only when i highlight any item i'm able to see the name of the person who has sen
- Tags: e-mail, windows, spbcarol_ece@..., header, font
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- Win Resolution
- I am running WinXP Pro, SP2. Have two user accounts, when I change screen reslution on one, conveys to other. Anyone know how to change resolution on one account only? Sid KraftI don't think this is possible. You can change the font sizes though.
- Tags: sid_kraft@...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-26
- Want to have some KEYPAD FUN?
- Regarding the "EASY" way to enter special characters using "ALT+ some kepad sequence", you might want to play the "Special Character Game"!Open Word or Wordpad or Write those support Graphics as well and select a font, say WINGDINGS. Set the size t
- Tags: alt + keypad, software, windows, feedback, CharMap, fadbel, font
- Discussion threads 2006-11-16
- Outlook XP/2003 printing problems small font size since IE7 update
- Has anyone else experienced problems with random emails printing in small fonts from Outlook XP/2003?No pattern seems to exist as an email from an external source can have the small font print problem with no header and yet the next email from th
- Tags: e-mail, software, windows, tplumley@..., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, font, HTML, HTML-mail, small font, Microsoft Outlook, printer, printing
- Discussion threads 2006-11-14
- Outlook: Large Fonts in Outlook when Replying or New Message
- I’ve googled and checked the MS knowledge base to no avail. A client machine on Outlook 2003 with Word as e-mail editor. When the user creates a new e-mail or replies to a received e-mail the font changes to a huge font. The recipient gets the emai
- Tags: e-mail, font, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, mjrepublicano, outlook, software, windows
- Discussion threads 2006-11-06
- Installing Fonts with a script
- I'm trying to install a font to about 100 computers on two networks at work using a logon script that runs via a GPO in AD.My bat file looks like this:If exist c:windowsfontsmetr53w.ttf goto endIf not exist c:windowsfontsmetr53w.ttf goto update :updateCopy \whkfsr01logon$SGAFontmetr53w.ttf c:windowsfontsregedit /s \whkfsr01logon$SGAFontimportfonts.regstart \whkfsr01logon$SGAFontmessage.txtgoto end :endI know that...
- Tags: font, cgreeff@...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- Is Vista Ready for Public Beta
- Is Vista Ready for Public BetaI have been testing Vista since release 1 in July last year; and I mostly happy with the advancements that have been provided. Yet despite it's different functionality there are certain functionalities which have not been changed since the days of Win 3.1 - Cursor...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, windows, security, it management, os, operating systems, vista, ArthurP, Microsoft Windows, font, Tahoma
- Discussion threads 2006-06-01
- Large fonts and outlook backgrounds
- I have a user that has turned on large fonts in the display properties. when she receives an email whith a background and tries to reply, the reply text is interlaced with the original message and is dificult to read. If I remote desktop and try to duplicate the...
- Tags: LM&W, windows, font
- Q&A 2006-05-18
- Toolbar Fonts
- How do I get the fonts icon to show up on the toolbar?Which program are you referring to?If you are wanting to work with fonts in Windows Explorer My Computer you need to go to your Windows Fonts folder (usually in C:WindowsFonts) and you will see some new toolbar buttons...
- Tags: font, toolbar, mbary@..., windows
- Q&A 2006-05-16
- Screen Resolution Issue
- My boss recently invested in a 19inch LCD monitor. When we hooked it up to his PC he noticed that some of the bold text characters were wavey looking bold to standard font and back again This PC was recently upgraded to XP via fresh install and this issue...
- Tags: font, abailey101, windows, CRT, PC, video card
- Q&A 2006-04-13
