-=> On 03-23-08  08:39,  Jean Parrot <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Font size <=-

 DS> On my screen, 24 pts is only about half of full screen, but plenty
 DS> big enough -- you must not have much real estate on your Acer.  
 DS> What is the screen size and resolution you have it set to?

 JP> I got included, this 19" wide screen, actually 14" x 10" for a
 JP> 1.4 ratio so I run it at 1280 x 800 to help my eyes. Since I got

   My 19 inch is about 15x12. I run it at 1280x1024, which is the max.
   With that setting a 24 point DOS window is about 13x8, which is just
   over half the screen.      I see from your other message that your
   screen is 16x10 -- also 19 inch diagonal, but wider and shorter than
   mine.

   There are a few other settings you could look to that have effect on
   the size of things.   As I said, I don't know Vista -- but in XP
   there is a properties sheet for the display (right click on any empty
   portion of the screen and select properties at the bottom of that
   menu that pops up).   Under the tab for "Appearance" there is a font
   size that could be twiddled with - I like "extra large".  And then
   under the tab "settings" there is an "advanced"
button.   That brings
   up some sort of pop-up from the display adapter.   The thing to
   twiddle with there is the DPI setting.  I have mine on normal (96
   dpi) but your mileage may vary.

 JP> You are right about the Acer being a very basic system but it
 JP> runs fine for what I do. The price also was right...$499.00
 JP> including the screen, the keyboard the mouse too. All is "on board"
 JP> vidcard, NIC. It has a 250 G HD, 2 G RAM of 667 rate, FSB is at
 JP> 800. So very basic, these days.

   That sounds like a pretty good machine, especially for the price.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) comcast (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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