Changing Display Properties.

I am trying to change the Font size for various items so that they are the
same size of 10.
I right click the screen/properties and on the Display Properties window
under the Title heading, I select an item like Active Title Bar. I am able
to change the setting from 8 to 10 but when I click apply, the mouse pointer
changes to the little egg timer icon and nothing else happens. If I do
Control/Alt/Delete, the Close Programme window opens high lighting Display
Properties not responding. Clicking End Program lets me resolve it. Although
the correct entry of 10 in this case is in the box, the information is not
kept on restart. Once it did work for some of the settings but most of the
time it did not.
Any clues of how to overcome it and is it possible to bypass the window and
modify the Registry. I should also add that I am running three user profiles
on this PC although I am trying to ensure that the text and font is the same
in all three.
Thanks
Alan

"Alan" wrote in message
...

I am trying to change the Font size for various items so that they are the
same size of 10.
I right click the screen/properties and on the Display Properties window
under the Title heading, I select an item like Active Title Bar. I am able
to change the setting from 8 to 10 but when I click apply, the mouse
pointer
changes to the little egg timer icon and nothing else happens.

The software that controls Display Properties is the
driver(s) for your video Display Adapter (and possibly
monitor too) seen via MSINFO32 or else
/ start / settings / control panel / system / display manager.
Before doing anything else you should reinstal these:
1. Identify the Display Adapter and look for updated
Win98 drivers on the maker's web site. When you know
you have the latest drivers and where on disk they are stored.
2. In Device Mannager, REMOVE the old adapters and reboot.
3. You should then see that the boot process identifies the
Display Adapter as "new hardware" and asks you to instal
drivers. If the boot goes into Safe Mode you can instal via
/ start / settings / control panel / Add New Hardware
and identify the Display Adapter
and then / Browse to where you put new drivers
(or else Win98 will use the path it stored earlier.)

Then try setting Display the way you want it, and repost here.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
hardware"

Have you done anything involving Group Policies? In the interests of
parental control, perhaps?

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.org/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.org/articles/security.htm

Alan wrote:
I am trying to change the Font size for various items so that they
are the same size of 10.
I right click the screen/properties and on the Display Properties
window under the Title heading, I select an item like Active Title
Bar. I am able to change the setting from 8 to 10 but when I click
apply, the mouse pointer changes to the little egg timer icon and
nothing else happens. If I do Control/Alt/Delete, the Close Programme
window opens high lighting Display Properties not responding.
Clicking End Program lets me resolve it. Although the correct entry
of 10 in this case is in the box, the information is not kept on
restart. Once it did work for some of the settings but most of the
time it did not.
Any clues of how to overcome it and is it possible to bypass the
window and modify the Registry. I should also add that I am running
three user profiles on this PC although I am trying to ensure that
the text and font is the same in all three.
Thanks
Alan

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
Have you done anything involving Group Policies? In the interests of
parental control, perhaps?

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.org/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.org/articles/security.htm

Alan wrote:
I am trying to change the Font size for various items so that they
are the same size of 10.
I right click the screen/properties and on the Display Properties
window under the Title heading, I select an item like Active Title
Bar. I am able to change the setting from 8 to 10 but when I click
apply, the mouse pointer changes to the little egg timer icon and
nothing else happens. If I do Control/Alt/Delete, the Close Programme
window opens high lighting Display Properties not responding.
Clicking End Program lets me resolve it. Although the correct entry
of 10 in this case is in the box, the information is not kept on
restart. Once it did work for some of the settings but most of the
time it did not.
Any clues of how to overcome it and is it possible to bypass the
window and modify the Registry. I should also add that I am running
three user profiles on this PC although I am trying to ensure that
the text and font is the same in all three.
Thanks
Alan

In response to both Don and Gary.
The graphics card is a Leadtek Winfast Titanium 500 TD and I do know that I
have been using the latest Nvidia drivers which are not specifically for
98SE, so maybe reverting to the last 98SE driver may be a step forward.
In terms of Group Policies I don't remember actually doing anything on that
front, although I am running the Resource Kit which I know mentions Group
Policies. What is the best way to find out if there is anything set for
this?
Finally, as I have your attention, when I upgrade to XP, should I uninstall
the Resource Kit first or not before attempting the upgrade?
Thanks in advance.
Alan

I asked about GPOs just to get the info into this thread. As a matter of
fact, I'm not really savvy about them, myself, though I would presume that
you'd use POLEDIT to find out what's been put into place.

However, as regards Upgrading to XP, I consider your question irrelevant,
since I would never recommend doing an in-place Upgrade. I *always*
recommend a clean install of XP instead. You have to install all new
drivers, anyway, and will likely have to reinstall several of your apps,
also. While I doubt the ResKit would need to be uninstalled, there *might*
be components thereof that could need to be uninstalled, or things that
you've done, like GPOs, might have to be undone before upgrade. The place to
get such questions answered is in XP newsgroups and/or by referring to the
included and online pre-installation documentation.

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.org/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.org/articles/security.htm

Alan wrote:
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
Have you done anything involving Group Policies? In the interests of
parental control, perhaps?

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.org/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.org/articles/security.htm

Alan wrote:
I am trying to change the Font size for various items so that they
are the same size of 10.
I right click the screen/properties and on the Display Properties
window under the Title heading, I select an item like Active Title
Bar. I am able to change the setting from 8 to 10 but when I click
apply, the mouse pointer changes to the little egg timer icon and
nothing else happens. If I do Control/Alt/Delete, the Close
Programme window opens high lighting Display Properties not
responding. Clicking End Program lets me resolve it. Although the
correct entry of 10 in this case is in the box, the information is
not kept on restart. Once it did work for some of the settings but
most of the time it did not.
Any clues of how to overcome it and is it possible to bypass the
window and modify the Registry. I should also add that I am running
three user profiles on this PC although I am trying to ensure that
the text and font is the same in all three.
Thanks
Alan

In response to both Don and Gary.
The graphics card is a Leadtek Winfast Titanium 500 TD and I do know
that I have been using the latest Nvidia drivers which are not
specifically for 98SE, so maybe reverting to the last 98SE driver may
be a step forward.
In terms of Group Policies I don't remember actually doing anything
on that front, although I am running the Resource Kit which I know
mentions Group Policies. What is the best way to find out if there is
anything set for this?
Finally, as I have your attention, when I upgrade to XP, should I
uninstall the Resource Kit first or not before attempting the upgrade?
Thanks in advance.
Alan

Gary,
Thanks for responding and your comments are noted.
Alan
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
I asked about GPOs just to get the info into this thread. As a matter of
fact, I'm not really savvy about them, myself, though I would presume that
you'd use POLEDIT to find out what's been put into place.

However, as regards Upgrading to XP, I consider your question irrelevant,
since I would never recommend doing an in-place Upgrade. I *always*
recommend a clean install of XP instead. You have to install all new
drivers, anyway, and will likely have to reinstall several of your apps,
also. While I doubt the ResKit would need to be uninstalled, there *might*
be components thereof that could need to be uninstalled, or things that
you've done, like GPOs, might have to be undone before upgrade. The place
to
get such questions answered is in XP newsgroups and/or by referring to the
included and online pre-installation documentation.

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.org/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.org/articles/security.htm

Alan wrote:
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
Have you done anything involving Group Policies? In the interests of
parental control, perhaps?

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.org/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.org/articles/security.htm

Alan wrote:
I am trying to change the Font size for various items so that they
are the same size of 10.
I right click the screen/properties and on the Display Properties
window under the Title heading, I select an item like Active Title
Bar. I am able to change the setting from 8 to 10 but when I click
apply, the mouse pointer changes to the little egg timer icon and
nothing else happens. If I do Control/Alt/Delete, the Close
Programme window opens high lighting Display Properties not
responding. Clicking End Program lets me resolve it. Although the
correct entry of 10 in this case is in the box, the information is
not kept on restart. Once it did work for some of the settings but
most of the time it did not.
Any clues of how to overcome it and is it possible to bypass the
window and modify the Registry. I should also add that I am running
three user profiles on this PC although I am trying to ensure that
the text and font is the same in all three.
Thanks
Alan

In response to both Don and Gary.
The graphics card is a Leadtek Winfast Titanium 500 TD and I do know
that I have been using the latest Nvidia drivers which are not
specifically for 98SE, so maybe reverting to the last 98SE driver may
be a step forward.
In terms of Group Policies I don't remember actually doing anything
on that front, although I am running the Resource Kit which I know
mentions Group Policies. What is the best way to find out if there is
anything set for this?
Finally, as I have your attention, when I upgrade to XP, should I
uninstall the Resource Kit first or not before attempting the upgrade?
Thanks in advance.
Alan

You're welcome. Good luck with your problem (the one you initially posted
about.) Wish I could have been of more assistance. I'll keep an eye on this
thread and maybe even "look into it"... When I can again see, that is. Broke
my glasses yesterday!

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.org/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.org/articles/security.htm

Alan wrote:
Gary,
Thanks for responding and your comments are noted.
Alan
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
I asked about GPOs just to get the info into this thread. As a
matter of fact, I'm not really savvy about them, myself, though I
would presume that you'd use POLEDIT to find out what's been put
into place.

However, as regards Upgrading to XP, I consider your question
irrelevant, since I would never recommend doing an in-place Upgrade.
I *always* recommend a clean install of XP instead. You have to
install all new drivers, anyway, and will likely have to reinstall
several of your apps, also. While I doubt the ResKit would need to
be uninstalled, there *might* be components thereof that could need
to be uninstalled, or things that you've done, like GPOs, might have
to be undone before upgrade. The place to get such questions
answered is in XP newsgroups and/or by referring to the included and
online pre-installation documentation.

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.org/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.org/articles/security.htm

Alan wrote:
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
Have you done anything involving Group Policies? In the interests
of parental control, perhaps?

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.org/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.org/articles/security.htm

Alan wrote:
I am trying to change the Font size for various items so that they
are the same size of 10.
I right click the screen/properties and on the Display Properties
window under the Title heading, I select an item like Active Title
Bar. I am able to change the setting from 8 to 10 but when I click
apply, the mouse pointer changes to the little egg timer icon and
nothing else happens. If I do Control/Alt/Delete, the Close
Programme window opens high lighting Display Properties not
responding. Clicking End Program lets me resolve it. Although the
correct entry of 10 in this case is in the box, the information is
not kept on restart. Once it did work for some of the settings but
most of the time it did not.
Any clues of how to overcome it and is it possible to bypass the
window and modify the Registry. I should also add that I am
running three user profiles on this PC although I am trying to
ensure that the text and font is the same in all three.
Thanks
Alan

In response to both Don and Gary.
The graphics card is a Leadtek Winfast Titanium 500 TD and I do know
that I have been using the latest Nvidia drivers which are not
specifically for 98SE, so maybe reverting to the last 98SE driver
may be a step forward.
In terms of Group Policies I don't remember actually doing anything
on that front, although I am running the Resource Kit which I know
mentions Group Policies. What is the best way to find out if there
is anything set for this?
Finally, as I have your attention, when I upgrade to XP, should I
uninstall the Resource Kit first or not before attempting the
upgrade? Thanks in advance.
Alan