• O.T. Resizing pages

    From Robert in CA@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 7 03:18:35 2023
    I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1,
    with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender
    and Windows firewall.

    Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB
    Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
    Ram 12.0 GB
    System type : 64-bit operating system

    I also have

    I have a Dell Optiplex 780 Tower, with Windows 7 Professional,
    SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender
    and Windows firewall.

    Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB
    Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
    System type : 64-bit operating system

    and (external hard drives)

    (8500)
    Seagate Desktop HDD ST6000DM001 6TB
    128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
    Hard Drive

    (780)
    Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB
    Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
    Internal Hard Drive

    Not really a problem but whenever I go to
    my Administrator Account and then return
    to my User Account the pages have been
    resized smaller and I have to adjust them.
    This continues for several days, In fact I'm
    still resizing the pages.

    This always seems to happen if I go into the
    Admin Account. I was just wondering why it
    does it?

    Thanks,
    Robert

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Robert in CA on Fri Aug 11 16:13:45 2023
    On 8/7/2023 6:18 AM, Robert in CA wrote:
    I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1,
    with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender
    and Windows firewall.

    Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB
    Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
    Ram 12.0 GB
    System type : 64-bit operating system

    I also have

    I have a Dell Optiplex 780 Tower, with Windows 7 Professional,
    SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender
    and Windows firewall.

    Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB
    Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
    System type : 64-bit operating system

    and (external hard drives)

    (8500)
    Seagate Desktop HDD ST6000DM001 6TB
    128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
    Hard Drive

    (780)
    Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB
    Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
    Internal Hard Drive

    Not really a problem but whenever I go to
    my Administrator Account and then return
    to my User Account the pages have been
    resized smaller and I have to adjust them.
    This continues for several days, In fact I'm
    still resizing the pages.

    This always seems to happen if I go into the
    Admin Account. I was just wondering why it
    does it?

    Thanks,
    Robert


    Is the admin account using the same Firefox profile
    as the non-admin account ?

    You can try looking for "profiles.ini" and there would
    be such, for Thunderbird, Seamonkey, Firefox, as
    well as for Administrator and Non-Administrator accounts.

    Since my tools normally start un-elevated, just the
    regular profiles.ini exist.

    C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini

    C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\profiles.ini

    C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\profiles.ini

    My "username" belongs to the Administrator group, but
    the elevation is not needed to run those three tools.

    I do not have the actual Administrator account ("real Administrator) enabled. If I did have that account enabled, then the path to the profiles to
    that account, would have to reflect it is the Administrator account.

    I set Win10 up in a VM (already prepared for this sort of thing), and
    this is what running Firefox as Administrator is using. It uses a profile folder in the Profiles next to the profile.ini file.

    C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini

    Now, if you have modified the thing somehow, to share the same Profiles
    folder (which you can do with some effort), then such a configuration
    might have side effects as described. It's possible the cookies.dqlite file could store scale settings for web pages.

    Paul

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  • From Robert in CA@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 12 12:20:46 2023
    I checked and the profiles are different. I
    don't remember making any changes.

    I have the same profile as you except in
    both accounts after \profiles\ I have a series of
    numbers/letters then . default or default-release

    I could show them to you but its probably
    not a good idea to show my profile unless
    you think it's OK?

    btw I had to resize again after I checked the
    Admin profile.

    Thanks,
    Robert

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Robert in CA on Sat Aug 12 16:55:08 2023
    On 8/12/2023 3:20 PM, Robert in CA wrote:

    I checked and the profiles are different. I
    don't remember making any changes.

    I have the same profile as you except in
    both accounts after \profiles\ I have a series of
    numbers/letters then . default or default-release

    I could show them to you but its probably
    not a good idea to show my profile unless
    you think it's OK?

    btw I had to resize again after I checked the
    Admin profile.

    Thanks,
    Robert


    If the profiles are different, I don't have any
    suggestions to make as to why this is happening.

    I seem to remember, a long time ago, some scale info
    was in the cookies, but I checked several sqlite files
    and can't find any mention of scale. Only a few JPG image
    file references, have a scale factor recorded with the URL,
    and that's not sufficient to be changing every web page.

    I don't know where that is hiding now.

    Paul

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  • From Robert in CA@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 13 01:04:20 2023
    It's OK, I just thought I would ask.

    I checked the 780 and it doesn't do it only the
    8500.

    In any case, it doesn't affect the performance
    of the computer.

    Thanks,
    Robert

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  • From Robert in CA@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 13 14:29:24 2023
    Another odd thing that's happened is that
    in Outlook I can no longer just paste text in.

    Now I have to select paste and then do a
    control V for the text to appear.

    These are all just small things but I thought I
    would mention them.

    I still run scans and do the monthly mrimgs.

    Thanks,
    Robert

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