husseyhipp Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 HiI have a laptop at school that is networked. I was working on it as 'user' when i opened up a program. When I had finished with it, I closed it down as normal and found that it had changed my settings by making everything really big. As I was using 'user' I didn't have the authority to change anything. So I went in as admin, did system restore, checked the settings and it is still the same. The desktop on admin is normal but on user everything is still really big.Can anyone help me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Have you tried right clicking the desktop/left click properties/left click settings and higher the resolution this will make the items on the screen smaller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
husseyhipp Posted June 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Have you tried right clicking the desktop/left click properties/left click settings and higher the resolution this will make the items on the screen smaller.Unfortunately being in 'user' disables the right click as well!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Can you access the Control panel/Appearances & themes/change screen resolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
husseyhipp Posted June 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Can you access the Control panel/Appearances & themes/change screen resolution.No it won't let me do that either. It's a real pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 You said you logged in as admin, how did you manage that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
husseyhipp Posted June 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 You said you logged in as admin, how did you manage that.Logged off as user and logged on as admin. I know the password of admin as I work with the IT teacher but he doesn't know how to fix it either!! Admin desktop is normal and when I log back in as user the icons are for a fraction of a minute normal then they disappear and come back very big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Have you tried setting up another guest-user account to see if that has the same problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
husseyhipp Posted June 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Have you tried setting up another guest-user account to see if that has the same problem.No I haven't tried that one. I will give that a go tomorrow morning when I get into school. I just hope I don't have to end up having to restore the computer using the cd's, not a good job when you have loads of work on it.It's a shame it's not going to be something simple!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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