My father bought an Acer TravelMate7720 which is a business laptop, meaning it still comes with XP. Problem is, all the icons are stretched.

It's not a resolution issue - it only applies to icons.
Here's how the "shut down" "log off" and firefox icons look like in the task bar:

Okay, this could work...

right-click on the taskbar. Click "properties."  Click the start menu tab.  Click the "start menu" radio button for the menu type you want and click the "customize..." button.  Messing around in there could work.

EDIT:
No, wait... Get into the display properties part of the control panel and look under the "appearance" tab and click on "advanced."  From the drop-down menu select "icons" and you can resize them.  I think.

Quote from: joliet_jane;1282081Okay, this could work...

right-click on the taskbar. Click "properties."  Click the start menu tab.  Click the "start menu" radio button for the menu type you want and click the "customize..." button.  Messing around in there could work.

EDIT:
No, wait... Get into the display properties part of the control panel and look under the "appearance" tab and click on "advanced."  From the drop-down menu select "icons" and you can resize them.  I think.

Hmm, that comes close but it only works on pictograms - desktop icons. They've looked normal since the beginning. It doesn't seem to work on system or application icons in the start menu and taskbar.

Update - even switching to classic mode doesn't help.

Here's a full desktop screenshot with the program names removed, I just noticed it's also the entire start menu and the icons on the bottom right. The desktop icons look completely normal.

Could it be that the 16*16 icons are missing on this computer? They almost look like they've been scaled down from a bigger size or something.
(It might be scaled down on imageshack too, so click it there too)
Also, this just might be my father's fault but Firefox's default text size is HUEG. I'm typing this in what seems to be like 16-17px text.

There's a some programs out there that change .dlls in a way that acts sort of like one of those windows skin programs but without any extra RAM usage. You could get those ugly clunky icons replaced by nice looking buttons. I used one on my XP machine at one point but I can't remember the name of it for the life of me. Once it's done it's done and you don't have to think about it again.

Quote from: ouıqןɐ;1282482There's a some programs out there that change .dlls in a way that acts sort of like one of those windows skin programs but without any extra RAM usage. You could get those ugly clunky icons replaced by nice looking buttons. I used one on my XP machine at one point but I can't remember the name of it for the life of me. Once it's done it's done and you don't have to think about it again.

Only problem being is my father already freaking the shit out because the windows close, maximize and minimize buttons were changed (check screenshot). A new icon set would kill him.

Edit - Also I suspect this problem to occur on the new icons as well. I don't think there's something wrong with the icons, but with the way windows displays them.

That's why XP has userprofiles.

Quote from: ouıqןɐ;1282551That's why XP has userprofiles.

It's my dad's laptop, I don't touch it except to fix it. My dad has spent his last three years yelling at computers, and now he's finally got something that works reasonably. I want to eliminate any reason for him to become annoyed by that thing as possible, including icons.

I don't want to put other icons in there and even if I did, they probably would be stretched for the same reason these are being stretched, whatever that is.

I'd just format.
If it came like that, then they might have some of their own software on there, taking up space, and fucking the icons, who knows.

Back up your dad's work related files onto another partition or external drive and Format the fuck out of C.

Quote from: MRBEANINATORCLOCK;1282575I'd just format.
If it came like that, then they might have some of their own software on there, taking up space, and fucking the icons, who knows.

Back up your dad's work related files onto another partition or external drive and Format the fuck out of C.

Are you saying it's a virus? If so, no. He's only installed software from original CD's and he only goes to sites of our shop's supplying companies.

Quote from: Doutzen Kroes;1282600Are you saying it's a virus? If so, no. He's only installed software from original CD's and he only goes to sites of our shop's supplying companies.

No. I'm saying that the company that he brought the laptop from, may have installed thier own shit on it to make it easier for the use like dell do,
and it may have fucked something up, who knows?  

A fresh install is always good if your computer comes preloaded with an OS anyway.

Quote from: MRBEANINATORCLOCK;1282603No. I'm saying that the company that he brought the laptop from, may have installed thier own shit on it to make it easier for the use like dell do,
and it may have fucked something up, who knows?  

A fresh install is always good if your computer comes preloaded with an OS anyway.

Meh, Acer just ships a terrible userdock type thing that's fairly harmless as long as you stay the hell away from using it. I deinstalled that right away.

I'll just talk to the computer guy tomorrow or something.