increasing font size

Last week I purchased my 1st laptop and thus entered the world of Vista
after running Win XP home since it 1st came out. I'm a senior at 62, and
my eyesight isn't the best anymore. I tried 1024x600 for larger font
size but didn't like how graphics and Icons looked, so I went back to
the default of 1288x600.

My problem is the the font size including emails is just too small, so
I'm forced to continually use Control + to increase it. Is there a way
to change the font size so I don't have to do this.

I'm running Firefox 3.07 and the latest version of Thunderbird.

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5934

Thanks in advance for the help.

Click View at the top and select Text Size


"Joel" <jaw101@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:49bfa698$0$22523$607ed4bc@cv.net...
> Last week I purchased my 1st laptop and thus entered the world of Vista
> after running Win XP home since it 1st came out. I'm a senior at 62, and
> my eyesight isn't the best anymore. I tried 1024x600 for larger font size
> but didn't like how graphics and Icons looked, so I went back to the
> default of 1288x600.
>
> My problem is the the font size including emails is just too small, so I'm
> forced to continually use Control + to increase it. Is there a way to
> change the font size so I don't have to do this.
>
> I'm running Firefox 3.07 and the latest version of Thunderbird.
>
> My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5934
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.

Badger wrote:
> Click View at the top and select Text Size
>
>
> "Joel" <jaw101@optonline.net> wrote in message
> news:49bfa698$0$22523$607ed4bc@cv.net...
>> Last week I purchased my 1st laptop and thus entered the world of
>> Vista after running Win XP home since it 1st came out. I'm a senior at
>> 62, and my eyesight isn't the best anymore. I tried 1024x600 for
>> larger font size but didn't like how graphics and Icons looked, so I
>> went back to the default of 1288x600.
>>
>> My problem is the the font size including emails is just too small, so
>> I'm forced to continually use Control + to increase it. Is there a way
>> to change the font size so I don't have to do this.
>>
>> I'm running Firefox 3.07 and the latest version of Thunderbird.
>>
>> My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5934
>>
>> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
The only option there is control + or control -. I'm trying to find a
way to not have to that for every email, etc.

OK, Joel,
something else to try,
Right click the desktop and select customize,
On the upper left of the screen, select Adjust font size (DPI)
On the drop down screen, click the Custom DPI button,
On the next drop down screen click the down arrow next to the little window
and highlite 125% to start with and then OK,
Hit OK again.

"Joel" <jaw101@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:49bfe37a$0$20294$607ed4bc@cv.net...
> Badger wrote:
>> Click View at the top and select Text Size
>>
>>
>> "Joel" <jaw101@optonline.net> wrote in message
>> news:49bfa698$0$22523$607ed4bc@cv.net...
>>> Last week I purchased my 1st laptop and thus entered the world of Vista
>>> after running Win XP home since it 1st came out. I'm a senior at 62, and
>>> my eyesight isn't the best anymore. I tried 1024x600 for larger font
>>> size but didn't like how graphics and Icons looked, so I went back to
>>> the default of 1288x600.
>>>
>>> My problem is the the font size including emails is just too small, so
>>> I'm forced to continually use Control + to increase it. Is there a way
>>> to change the font size so I don't have to do this.
>>>
>>> I'm running Firefox 3.07 and the latest version of Thunderbird.
>>>
>>> My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5934
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for the help.
>>
> The only option there is control + or control -. I'm trying to find a
> way to not have to that for every email, etc.

Badger wrote:
> OK, Joel,
> something else to try,
> Right click the desktop and select customize,
> On the upper left of the screen, select Adjust font size (DPI)
> On the drop down screen, click the Custom DPI button,
> On the next drop down screen click the down arrow next to the little
> window and highlite 125% to start with and then OK,
> Hit OK again.
>
> "Joel" <jaw101@optonline.net> wrote in message
> news:49bfe37a$0$20294$607ed4bc@cv.net...
>> Badger wrote:
>>> Click View at the top and select Text Size
>>>
>>>
>>> "Joel" <jaw101@optonline.net> wrote in message
>>> news:49bfa698$0$22523$607ed4bc@cv.net...
>>>> Last week I purchased my 1st laptop and thus entered the world of
>>>> Vista after running Win XP home since it 1st came out. I'm a senior
>>>> at 62, and my eyesight isn't the best anymore. I tried 1024x600 for
>>>> larger font size but didn't like how graphics and Icons looked, so I
>>>> went back to the default of 1288x600.
>>>>
>>>> My problem is the the font size including emails is just too small,
>>>> so I'm forced to continually use Control + to increase it. Is there
>>>> a way to change the font size so I don't have to do this.
>>>>
>>>> I'm running Firefox 3.07 and the latest version of Thunderbird.
>>>>
>>>> My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5934
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for the help.
>>>
>> The only option there is control + or control -. I'm trying to find
>> a way to not have to that for every email, etc.
>

Thanks, it helped.