Thank you, Jim. Here is a little more info. Dpi options 96 120 custom it is set at 96 dpi Resolution Highest is 1280x800 -- this is where it is set now I switched it 1 hash-mark lower-- the font is getting bigger but not much darker (bigger is not what I need. I need darker and less dots in letters) I switched it 1 more hash-mark lower-- the font is unusually and horribly big and bold I didn't measure but the laptop screen looks like a 15 or 15+ inch wide. So is there a combination of dpi and resolution that i could try? Excuse my missing caps on "i". Sometimes the i+shift doesn't make a capital. One more thing to get fixed. Sigh. Judy On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Jim Rickenbacker(3) <j3mr2@borisbrooks.com>wrote: > Judy, > All I can suggest is this: > 1. Right click on an empty part of your desktop. > 2. Click on properties. > 3. Click on the Settings tab. > This should bring up your display settings and give you a choice of screen > resolutions that the laptop can support. Either 1024x768 or 800x600 would > be > the usual choices for an older, non-widescreen laptop. > > Hope this helps. > Jim Rickenbacker

Hello again, I need to buy a new FTP program. I have always used WS FTP but they are getting pricey. I am looking at Cute Home version. I have never used it. I talked to their Rep today and the Rep said Cute Home version would be just fine for me. I have been changing the html in a very large web site so both Fire Fox and I.E.8 browsers can read it equally well. I'm using WS 995 right now but it is limited. I have about 5,000 pages to upload. I'm afraid I'd be a long time uploading the new site using WS 995 (a free program). Expression Web 3 has a built in FTP program but it is like reading Latin to me. Any ideas? Charles

Judy, 1280x800 sounds like a widescreen. 96 dpi is pretty standard. You could try 120 but that should only make the font bigger. It probably won't help your problem. Unfortunately, it sounds like a hardware problem to me. When I set a Windows Explorer window to 1280x800 I get 39 lines of text (files list) which works out to just about 20 screen lines per line of text. A lower case "l" takes up about half of that or 10 screen lines. If you're only getting 5 dots per lower case "l" it sounds like the display is skipping every other screen line. I don't know of any display setting that can do that.so think it must be a hardware problem. I'd consider returning the laptop if that's possible. Jim Rickenbacker ----- Original Message ----- From: "J.A. Florian" <cageycat@gmail.com> To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] OT maybe? Computer resolution and the way fontlooks > Thank you, Jim. Here is a little more info. > > Dpi options > 96 > 120 > custom > it is set at 96 dpi > > Resolution > Highest is 1280x800 -- this is where it is set now > I switched it 1 hash-mark lower-- the font is getting bigger but not much > darker (bigger is not what I need. I need darker and less dots in > letters) > I switched it 1 more hash-mark lower-- the font is unusually and horribly > big and bold > > > I didn't measure but the laptop screen looks like a 15 or 15+ inch wide. > > So is there a combination of dpi and resolution that i could try? > > Excuse my missing caps on "i". Sometimes the i+shift doesn't make a > capital. One more thing to get fixed. Sigh. > > Judy > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Jim Rickenbacker(3) > <j3mr2@borisbrooks.com>wrote: > >> Judy, >> All I can suggest is this: >> 1. Right click on an empty part of your desktop. >> 2. Click on properties. >> 3. Click on the Settings tab. >> This should bring up your display settings and give you a choice of >> screen >> resolutions that the laptop can support. Either 1024x768 or 800x600 would >> be >> the usual choices for an older, non-widescreen laptop. >> >> Hope this helps. >> Jim Rickenbacker > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Judy, I never heard of i+shift ... it is shift+i Sorry if this is of no help. George On 7 Dec 2009 at 21:42, J.A. Florian wrote: > Thank you, Jim. Here is a little more info. > > Dpi options > 96 > 120 > custom > it is set at 96 dpi > > Resolution > Highest is 1280x800 -- this is where it is set now > I switched it 1 hash-mark lower-- the font is getting bigger but not much > darker (bigger is not what I need. I need darker and less dots in letters) > I switched it 1 more hash-mark lower-- the font is unusually and horribly > big and bold > > > I didn't measure but the laptop screen looks like a 15 or 15+ inch wide. > > So is there a combination of dpi and resolution that i could try? > > Excuse my missing caps on "i". Sometimes the i+shift doesn't make a > capital. One more thing to get fixed. Sigh. > > Judy > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Jim Rickenbacker(3) > <j3mr2@borisbrooks.com>wrote: > > > Judy, > > All I can suggest is this: > > 1. Right click on an empty part of your desktop. > > 2. Click on properties. > > 3. Click on the Settings tab. > > This should bring up your display settings and give you a choice of screen > > resolutions that the laptop can support. Either 1024x768 or 800x600 would > > be > > the usual choices for an older, non-widescreen laptop. > > > > Hope this helps. > > Jim Rickenbacker > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message