Low Vision Aid Windows 7

[Geek-9pm]

Ease of access in Windows 7 is very mediocre.
(It is the 32 bit version. I suppose the 64 bit is the same.)
That is why I am so often using my old XP partition instead of Windows 7. I want to learn more about Windows 7, but the poor ease of access is not good enough for regular use. It creates eye and neck strain.
But with XP I can adjust everything until I am comfortable with it.

The Win 7  magnifier is mice, but not helpful when I do not have the other monitor running. Would be nice if there was a toggle for the magnifier son you could turn it on or off in one keystroke.

Windows 7 has  big Icons. Nice. But the text under the icon  is very tiny. I wound like to have larger icon text and just regular icons.

So, what could I do to make ease of access better in Windows 7 Home Premium? 

[JJ 3000]

See here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Make-the-text-on-your-screen-larger-or-smaller

Or instead of that, you could right click on your screen and choose personalize. At the bottom of the screen click on Window Color then click on advanced appearance settings. You will see a drop down box where you can choose whichever item you like and change the font, font size, color, bold or italic.

The Win 7  magnifier is mice, but not helpful when I do not have the other monitor running. Would be nice if there was a toggle for the magnifier son you could turn it on or off in one keystroke.

Press the Windows key along with the plus or minus key to zoom in or out.

[JJ 3000]

Magnifier shortcuts:
 

Windows key + the plus sign(+)     Starts the magnifier

Windows key + plus sign(+) or minus sign(-)     Zoom in or out

Ctrl+Alt+Space bar     Preview the desktop in full-screen mode

Ctrl+Alt+F     Switch to full-screen mode

Ctrl+Alt+L     Switch to lens mode

Ctrl+Alt+D     Switch to docked mode

Ctrl+Alt+I     Invert colors

Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys     Pan in the direction of the arrow keys

Ctrl+Alt+R     Resize the lens

Windows key + Esc     Exits Magnifier

[BC_Programmer]

1.Right-Click desktop->Personalize
2. Choose "Window Color" from along the bottom
3. Select "Advanced Appearance Settings".

You can change font sizes within this dialog. For example, if you wanted larger icon text, but wanted to leave the icons the same size, you would choose "Icon" from the "Item" combobox; then you can change the font and size. You can do this for quite a number of elements. You can also make caption buttons larger.

Just noticed JJ3000 already posted this.

Oh well. Also, it blabs about it not working for Aero, but that's a outright lie; most of the settings work for Aero (with only a few exceptions, such as setting the active/inactive title bar colour, for example)

[soybean]

The Win 7  magnifier is mice, but not helpful when I do not have the other monitor running. Would be nice if there was a toggle for the magnifier son you could turn it on or off in one keystroke.

I have a Microsoft Comfort Optical 3000 mouse which has a small red button on the left side where it can be pressed with the right thumb.  Pressing it turns on Magnifier.  Pressing it again turns Magnifier off.

I imagine some other mice have the feature or have a button which could be programmed to do this.

[Geek-9pm]

Thanks to all! I didn't  know you could do that in Windows 7.
Tonight I will try the suggestions and report back later.