I have had to reinstalle windows XP, but now all the icons and writting are too big?

Question

How do I minimize the desk top and all the writting?

Answer 1

Have you reinstalled your Graphics drivers, it sounds like you are viewing the screen in a large resolution (probably 800x600). Windows will probably let you adjust it to 1024x768 with the default drivers but you need to install the proper ones for your VGA device.

Right click a blank area of the desktop,

select Properties,

go to the Settings Tab and see if you can move the slider to the right to get a better screen resolution. Accept the changes when asked if you like the new size.

Then check the lower right corner of that window in the Advanced tab,

go to the Adapter tab and look at the Adapter type and Name information,

if it shown as not available you have not installed the correct drivers,

often a Windows Update will be able to find the right driver for you if you don't know which one you have.

Answer 2

If you re-installed your Operating System (XP) you probably need to re-install all your drivers. Right click on My Computer and left click on properties. Then click on the tab that says Hardware and then Device Manager. Everything with a yellow mark is a driver that needs to be re-installed. If you purchased your PC from a store (Dell, HP, Compaq, etc) you can go to their website and download the drivers. Also check first to see if you got a disk with your PC that may have the drivers. Good luck

Answer 3

This means that your resolution is too low. Right click the desktop -> click Properties -> click the Settings tab then adjust the resolution slider to the resolution you want then click OK

Answer 4

Right click on Deskop -> Proprieties -> Settings -> Screen Resolution -> More

Answer 5

adjust zoom level ... bottom right hand corner of screen