IE6 Font Inconsistency 1

[CondorMan]

Hello everyone

I have XP Pro SP2 and noticed that the font size of

http://www.google.com

became very small about 4 hours ago. A similar change occurred on a banking site that I access. All of the other internet sites that I visit show normally. I checked Tools>Internet Options>General>Accessibility and then checked "Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages" and, whilst it improved the appearance, neither Google nor the banking site look as they did last night. I've not made any changes to the registry, GP Editor or downloaded any software recently. I have McAfee and it downloaded a virus update about 10 hours ago, well before I noticed the problem and I had accessed Google shortly following the virus update. I've run Spybot and AdAware (zilch) and these, in conjunction with my AV, make me think that I don't have any malware that's accounting for this behaviour. I've rebooted and it's made no difference.

Finally, I use Outlook Express to view the Newsgroups and noticed that the main page which opens when I launch the software has larger font now - presumably because of the setting that I changed in IE6.

This is perplexing! Anyone have any idea what's happened and how I can resolve it?

Thanks for your time and patience.

 

[JFBouchard]

Hi, you may try this:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
re-enable the use of style sheets, edit the string value "Use StyleSheets" in the above key and set it to yes.



Hope this helps. Please let know if this resolve your issue

Jeff

 

[CondorMan]

Yes, that worked fine. The key wasn't there so I created it.

Any idea *why* it should have occurred in the first place? As I said, the problem affected Google, a banking site that I use and I also noticed it when I visited Hotmail and the Windows Update site.

It would be nice to know "why" as well as "how to treat"!

 

[JFBouchard]

Frankly I don't know for sure but it seems that only your frequently visited sites were affected. This may be (is) a symptom of cache corruption at the index.dat level. Forcing the use of stylesheets may have overriden the automatic page setupused for most sites in IE.

But these are only speculations. If anyone knows, please give us your thoughts.

Computers aren't always an exact science even if they recognize only 0 and 1...

bye

Jeff

 

[CondorMan]

Hi Jeff

Interesting - but it's still annoying that I don't know *why* this happened! I guess it may always be speculation. As a matter of interest, I also cleared out my TIF and cookies after I'd changed the registry that you suggested.

Let's hope that this thread might be of use to someone else who runs into the same problem.

 

[JFBouchard]

I agree entirely.

Glad to have been of some help.

Have a nice day!

Jeff

Hope this helps. Please let know if this resolve your issue

Jeff