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Windows XP: Turn On and Use Magnifier

Magnifier is a display utility that makes the computer screen more readable. Learn how to turn on and use Magnifier in Windows XP.

Lightning Express is a completely free full screen magnifier for PC's running Windows XP and Vista. It is designed to offer an easily-accessible option for anyone needing screen magnification.

• Aldo's Magnifier - Aldo's magnifier is a freeware clone of the Windows 98 Magnifier.
  Because of the auto-reposition feature, it is one of the best freeware screen magnifier utilities for Windows, that magnifies the area around your mouse cursor up to 4 times.
  Features: auto reposition, copy magnified view to clipboard or printer.
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DesktopZoom.zip

DesktopZoom is a zoom/magnify program with lots of options :

• Completely portable and doesn't need admin privilege
• Zoom an area around the mouse, zoom a fixed window or zoom the entire desktop
• Use the mouse inside the zoomed window
• Use the mouse wheel or arrow keys to adjust the magnification strength
• Translation to Dutch, French, German and Czech
  
• View the entire screen as a thumbnail in the right-bottom corner
  
• Follow the caret & menu items
  
• Change the colors to grey or invers the colors
• Show the original screen with a transparency value between 0 en 100%
• Show a bigger mouse and/or a crosshair
• Use Alt-keys to change the zoomvalue and to enable/disable tracking and the crosshair
  
• Save all the settings to a file for automatic loading
• Basic speech support
  

Note: This program only works on "Windows XP" and "Windows 2000", because it depends heavily on "transparency", a feature that Microsoft has only supported since "Windows 2000".
It can also work on Vista if you disable Aero.

Fatbits is one of those mind bogglingly useful utility programs for graphic artists or people designing user interfaces. It magnifies an area of the screen centered around the mouse pointer and paints the giant pixels into a small, tastefully decorated window. This can be indispensable when you want to see something right down to the last pixel.

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