>>>>>>>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>>>>>>>I don't know if this is in some way connected but after I installed Google Toolbar on this IE 8, the UT font appear to be very small. The area of the message (where I am typing now) is only half of the screen. Before I installed Google toolbar the message area was normal (to full screen) and the font was reasonably large. What could be done to make the message area and fonts back to normal?
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>>>>>>>>>>It takes only a few seconds to uninstall it, to see if that truly was the cause.
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>>>>>>>>>>It's against what little religion I have to use any third-party browser toolbars whatsoever.
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>>>>>>>>>>Another possibility is you may have inadvertently changed your text size. I believe IE supports Ctrl-MouseWheel to increase/decrease font size, I've done that by mistake a few times.
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>>>>>>>>>Thank you for your help. The ctrl-mousewheel is the solution. I didn't know of this feature. And I don't remember changing it before. But it works so I thank you.
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>>>>>>>>In the bottom, right end of IE, you see something like 100%. You can change that with your Ctrl-MouseWheel
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>>>>>>>Thank you. Right now it says 155% and it seems to be at the size where I can see everything well.
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>>>>>>Hmm, you may be using the zoom feature to compensate for something the Google Toolbar did.
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>>>>>>In IE what is your default text size (View...Text Size)? If that has changed from the default "Medium" that might explain what you're seeing, too.
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>>>>>>After you installed the toolbar, were any sites other than UT affected? What do other sites look like at 100%?
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>>>>>My IE 8 text size still says Medium (before installation of Google toolbar and after; I checked that). I have a couple of other sites (mostly help on SQL Server installation topics) open in IE and they appear in very small font (100%). And I can change them (using your suggestion) to like 150% and then they look much better. So by default IE opens everything in 100% and the font is too small for me. So my guess is that before I installed Google toolbar the default IE was larger than 100% (although I don't remember setting it). Google toolbar brought everything to 100%. So I need to find where in IE I can set the default to be around 155% (should be somewhere in the settings).
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>>>>Like I said earlier, you can try uninstalling the toolbar, it takes only seconds, I've done it enough times on various client's PCs. Or maybe there's a setting in the toolbar for "default font size" or some such.
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>>>>I don't use IE much, but I believe you can change the default text size to be something different just by setting the "Text Size" as explained above to something other than "Medium".
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>>>>And, hopefully, you don't have more than one toolbar installed - they can interfere with each other.
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>>>Every time I uninstall or install something, something else breaks (must be my karma :)). So I am reluctant to uninstall the Google tool bar. I will probably install FireFox and try it too (which is what I use now on my other PC). This is a Windows 7 which I am setting up to be my primary PC.
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>>>And Google toolbar is all that I have; I like some of it features.
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>>Give the google chrome browser a try.
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>I might. What do you like in it (chrome) compared to IE 8 and Firefox?

Speed is the main thing - chrome is waaaaaaay faster than IE and Firefox. I don't use a bunch of extensions with it - just the ad-block one. Anyway it works quite well - I haven't had any issues with it for quite a few releases. I run the latest beta of it myself http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/beta/