Is there a way to make all web pages fit inside the screen?
Since I reloaded Windows 98 some web pages have been too big for my screen and I have to scroll across. This is a new problem because I didn’t have this problem before I reloaded Windows.
Straight Dope, for example, is the same as it was before but some pages are too big. Is there a way to resize them?
This can be a problem because some games sites use java applets that you can’t resize manually and therefore I can’t play them because the bottom of the applet goes below the bottom of the screen.
I’ve tried changing the screen resolution in Control Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Screen Area. This does make things fit onto the screen but it’s not like it was before I reloaded Windows because it makes everything really small.
I want everything to be the same size but still fit onto one screen. Anyone know a way of doing this?
I think I must have to change some setting somewhere but I don’t know what to change!
Go back to Control Panel -> Display -> Settings and select the Appearance tab. From the Scheme menu box, select Windows Large or Windows Extra Large. This should give you a font size that is more appealing at high resolution (1024x768 or above).
I tried it but it changes the size of all the writing on the screen - makes it really big. It does make web pages fit into the browser window but it’s not like it was before I reloaded Windows.
Before, it was all Windows Standard size but web pages still used to fit onto the screen. Obviously I had to scroll down but not across.
Maybe I should ring Microsoft and get one of their eggheads onto it? Like all computer problems, I’m sure the solution is really obvious and easy once you know what it is. But it doesn’t seem like a resolution thing - the writing on my screen (when I look at SD for eg,) is right - I don’t want it any smaller or any bigger.
I just want to make web pages fit inside my browser window, like it used to be before I reloaded Windows, like it is on everyone else’s machine.
This is most likely the best solution for you, but it will only change the text size, not the size of replaced elements like applets.
Nitpick: An accessible web page will render inside the window. There is no standard for accessibility, only guidelines. Just as you can easily have a standards-compliant web page with black text on a black background, you can make one that scrolls horizontally.
Thanks for the suggestions but I think the solution is going to be something more simple. As Achernar says, Java applets will still be too big.
However much I make the screen small and the writing big, it will still look wrong. I want everything to be Windows default for my machine (size of font, resolution, screen area etc) but I want java windows and other web pages to fit into the normal width of my browser like they used to before I reloaded Windows.
Obviously not all pages fit into the width of your browser, there are always some that are a different size but what I am saying is something has changed on my computer since I reloaded Windows because applets (and some pages) that used to be ok are now too big.
I think there must be a way to tell Windows to make all web pages automatically fit the size of your browser window(whatever that size is).
I just want to know what that way is. Thanks for all the help though. If anyone has any other ideas I’m all ears although I’ve been meaning to ring Microsoft anyway because I’m also getting an error message when I try to load Microsoft Office.
So maybe I’ll throw this question in as an aside when I ring them.
I don’t really have any idea what your problem might be but here is what I would try. You said that you reinstalled Windows 98. What version of IE do your have? If you have IE 5.5 for example, try upgrading to IE 6.0. If you already have the latest version of IE, try uninstalling IE and reinstalling.
I don’t know if this would help, but it may be worth a try.
Good luck.
On preview, I don’t see where you said what browser that you are using but my comments stand for any browser I guess. IOW, I am guessing that this may be a browser issue rather than WIN 98.
