you did not mention if this is xp or windows 7 but doing a real quick system restore to the day before it happened might fix it and it won't hurt anything. here are the directions for xp. System Restore, accessible by clicking [Start] [All Programs] [Accessories] [System Tools] [System Restore]. then Choose from the bulleted options on the right you want to restore your computer to an earlier time. The calendar on the left will have dates in bold. Selecting a day will show the restore points available for that date in the breakout to the right of the calendar. Select the restore point you want and click This would be the day before your fonts changed. Then click next to restore your computer to the earlier date and time. Your pc will reboot just leave it alone let it do it's thing. That is it you are done. very very easy to do and all it does is put your settings back as they were on that date. If you are using something other than xp let us know so we can give you the appropriate instructions.

Tamara, are you still checking this thread? The font size seems to be stable after a few glitches this morning. Still have to double click to go back. Still have to log in each time I stop in, despite checking the box to save the information on my computer. I have the same issues using my hubby's laptop and using IE. However, here's a funny little quirk. It seems I only have to log in each time for the Kitchen Forum. I just came from there where I wasn't logged in to this thread on the Cooking Forum where I *am* logged in. And I didn't log in inbetween stops. I'm remembered in one forum and not the other. Please get the powers that be at GW to fix this mess! Thank you!

i got my latches from rejuvination and went with the smaller ones. they work great, love them and they really make the kitchen. they function much better than the other ones, worth the extra money. my friends have all commented on how much they like the latches.

Hi Begonia! Ok glad to hear they are near a window! Let me reach to my way back memory. Anyone else feel free to jump in if I misspeak, after all I am going by memory. Ok, here goes. When I raised violets strictly under lights (just normal 4ft tubes) I believe I left them on for about 12 to 14 hours per day. There was no supplemental lighting from windows as my 3 tiered shelf was in the basement. Now, as you know, some plants preferred the middle intense light of the tubes and some preferred the lower intensity of the ends of the tubes, and believe it or not,,,,,I remember setting up a little table NEXT to and smack up against the end of the plant cart for a few violets that wanted hardly no light at all!!!!! But they did very well that way! I let the violets tell me what they wanted and who was I to argue with them??? In your case, you had some supplemental light from your almost SE window. I would say (gulp here I go with memory) you may do better if you use your flourescent lights maybe just from morning until you get your good window light and at that point set your timer to turn off the lights. You realize that this arrangement will change with the day length as it changes. I don't know how frequent that will be. I haven't done flourescent lighting for over 30 years. Winter may see you adjusting your lights to where they will be on a lot. But the way the day length is now, I wonder if you could just use the lights for supplemental instead of all day. This would be an experiment, but what the heck? You have nothing to lose and everything to gain! You mentioned "the Optimara already starting to reach on one side" Ok, when you grow a violet either in window OR under lights (especially in a window) you still have to rotate them a quarter turn every couple days so they don't reach from one side only. It gives all of the leaves equal exposure to light, and they will grow symmetrically. And even when I grew plants (yes I had other things under lights also!) under lights I would rotate and/or change their positions somehow so every plant got equal (as I could make it) exposure. Light doesn't only have to fall on the leaves themselves to have the violet do well and blossom. The light (as I remember it) also needs to get waaaay into where the stem connects to the "neck" or trunk of the plant. This helps promote blossom. That is why we strive for symmetry. Light should get to all inner areas of the violet also. As far as the fertilizer. If you feed your plant for a week, and then give just regular water for a week you have NOT stopped feeding your plant! Bear with me here please,,,,,during the week your plant was "feeding", the "food" was in the soil, stems leaves blossoms and any other part of the plant that there is. Now, you start giving plain water. All of that residual "food" is still being used as the plant is now sucking up plain water. So by the end of the week of plain water your plant should be almost "filled" with the last of the fertilizer and almost with plain water. Fertilizer doesn't just disappear the minute you start using plain water. It went in first it will be used up as the plain water starts entering the soil, stems, leaves and blossoms. Like flushing out a hose that has colored water in it. Color was there first, now use the plain water and first the color comes out then faded color comes out then plain water! Gosh am I babbling or do you (or anyone) understand what I am trying to say? AND I learned this using Peter's fertilizer. It is blue and that is where you learn about color going thru a hose! Rosie PS. We used Peter's to water AV's at the greenhouse and I loved it! Do they still make/sell it anywhere? Ok,,,,,I am done finally. Hope some of this helps. Rosie