Text size/ATI control panel questions

Hey,

Running on an HP Pavilion zx5000 (which I never would have known about BTW without extensively using this website and all the incredibly knowledgable people on these forums...thanks, fellas, a lot better than my original idea of an Athlon XP 2600 with integrated graphics...)

I was just wondering if there was any way to increase the text and image sizes without changing the resolution. The widescreen runs at 1600X1200 and the text can sometimes get pretty small, and I don't think you can change the resolution to anything lower.

Also, for some reason I do not have the ATI symbol in the system tray. I don't really need it but it pisses me off not to see it there. Any way I can get that thing to show up?

Thanks a bunch.

 

You can change the size of the fonts the OS uses from the Display Properties in the control panel. (Go to the Appearance tab. There is a "Font size" pull-down list, or click Advanced from there and you can set font sizes for each element by choosing an "Item" and then setting the font size). Some programs also have their own "zoom" or "font size" controls, of course.

 

Oh, and for the ATI taskbar icon - I can't remember where exactly it is, but i am pretty sure that you can go to an Options tab in the ATI control tabs somewhere and tell it to enable the taskbar icon (display properties, settings, advanced)