Hi Michael, On 17/08/2011, at 8:36 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote:
> I have installed Lion on my 17" MacBook Pro. The font size as it appears on > the screen is too small (by this I mean that all letters on the computer > screen are small). How do I increase the size? Are you using the correct screen resolution for your MBP? 1920 x 1200 New in Lion, you can specify whether you want your sidebar text and icons in small, medium, or large size. In the General pane of System Preferences, choose from the “Sidebar icon size” pop-up menu. Your choice here affects not only the Finder sidebar but some other applications that have sidebars, such as Mail. You can use the built-in Screen Zoom feature. This is like bringing your face closer to the monitor, except that instead the monitor enlarges everything for you. In the Keyboard preference pane, switch to Keyboard Shortcuts view. Then, in the left column, switch to the Universal Access section. Under Zoom at the right, you can now see the keyboard shortcuts for “Turn zoom on or off” (the default is Option-Command-8), “Zoom in” (Option-Command-Equal), and “Zoom out” (Option-Command-Minus). > > My other grumble is that Lion has made the computer slow down – there's a > noticeable delay between pressing a key and the computer reacting to it. > Reminds me of using a Windows machine. Did you let Spotlight complete its re-indexing after your first boot into Lion, without running other programs? Carlo and I have previously mentioned that Lion reindexes all of your drives on the first couple boot-ups, which may explain why some people thought it was sluggish at first. The more files you have on your system, and the more of those that you leave in scope for Spotlight searches, the longer this will take. You can verify that by bringing up Activity Monitor, sort by "% CPU" and if "mdworker" or "mds" is chewing up all the CPU then its Spotlight and it should stop after some time. If you are having a slow experience with Lion, perhaps Repair Disk & Repair Permissions is a good start to see where your problem is. Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility - "Verify Disk”. Even if you receive a message “that all appears ok” 1. Shut down your computer 2. Boot the computer while holding down the OPTION key, then select “Recovery HD” and press Return 3. Once booted in Recovery mode, select Disk Utility. Select your Mac HD. 4. Verify Disk (& again if it reports that your HD is OK) 5. Repair Disk 6. Then ‘Repair Permissions' It will most likely quite a number of problems during this process and repair them. 7. After it is finished, restart your computer. Spotlight will most likely re-index your drive again … if it does … let it complete the process without running any other programs. > > Thank you, > > Michael Hawkins > > MacBook Pro 17" > 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo > 6GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM > OS 10.7.1 Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
