I have windows 2000.  How do I make the printed letters on the screen larger?

poweron-ga...

Right-click on your desktop and select Properties from the menu.
Go to the Settings tab and move the slider in the Screen Area
section toward the left (toward Less). Try moving it just one
setting to the left, and click Apply. This will change the
resolution of your monitor and give you 15 seconds to decide
whether you want to keep it that way, and a dialog box where
you need to click Yes to keep the new setting.

You'll need to adjust the size and placement of the program 
windows you normally use, but the text will be increased in
size all across the board.


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Request for Answer Clarification by poweron-ga on 28 Oct 2005 07:34 PDT

How do I adjust the size and placement of the program windows, now
that I have the larger size print???  Are the arrows the only way?  
Thank you for the help, I feel very close to the solution..

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Clarification of Answer by sublime1-ga on 28 Oct 2005 12:02 PDT

poweron...

I'm not positive what you mean by "arrows", but it's true
that, sometimes, when you've lowered the resolution, you
end up with the windows so large that you can't get to the
top of the window with your cursor, to move them around.

If this has happened, you can always set the resolution
higher, temporarily, thus reducing the program window size
until you're able to get at the window's title bar. Then 
you can reduce the program window to as small as possible
without minimizing it, and place the window in the middle
of the screen toward the bottom and go back to your desired
lower resolution. You should then be able to adjust the 
size and placement to your complete satisfaction.

You can move windows just by left-clicking in the title
bar at the top of the program window and holding down 
the left mouse button while you move the cursor, thereby
dragging the window where you want it. If you've made the
window smaller, as I suggested, once you've reset the 
resolution back to the lower resolution with the type 
size you prefer, you can just drag it so the top left
corner of the window is at the top left corner of your
monitor viewing space.

Then move your cursor over the bottom right corner of the 
window, and a double-ended arrow should show up pointing
in a diagonal to the top left and bottom right sides of the
screen. When that image shows up as your cursor, left-click
on the bottom right corner of the window you're adjusting,
holding down the left mouse button as you drag the bottom
right corner of the window to the bottom right corner of 
your monitor's viewing area. The window should now take
up the entire viewing area.

While you have the resolution temporarily set higher so 
the windows are smaller, it's a good idea to open up all
the program windows you normally use, and move them all 
to the bottom middle of the screen, reducing their size.
Then, when you go back to the lower resolution you prefer,
they'll all be there for you to adjust at once.

Each program will remember the size and placement of its
windows, so you need to make the adjustments in each of
the program windows you normally use, such as your email
program, your browser, Windows Explorer, and so on.

The FunctionX website has an excellent graphic tutorial
on moving and resizing program windows in Windows:
http://www.functionx.com/windows/Lesson06.htm

You may find the entire Windows tutorial useful. It
begins on this page:
http://www.functionx.com/windows/

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Additional searches done, via Google:

tutorial "resizing a window" -javascript
://www.google.com/search?q=tutorial+%22resizing+a+window%22+-javascript

If used with an LCD screen, you're probably moving away from the
native screen resolution, with gives it a blurry feel. Another way
would be not to go to the Settings tab, but to the Appearance tab, and
as Scheme, choose something with (Large) or (Extra Large) behind the
name.