my screen zooms in randomly, I can go to View and and hit actual size and it quickly corrects but then will repeat this on and off daily.

My screen zooms in randomly, I correct it my gloing to VIEW and hit actual size which corrects it but then it does the same thing on and off daily. How do I correct it for good?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Dec 18, 2011 6:33 AM

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Dec 18, 2011 7:06 AM in response to joyfrompeterborough

If you are using a Magic Mouse in Lion, one of the gestures that will do that in Safari is a one-finger double-tap (tap, not click) on the mouse. A repeat of it will bring it back to normal. Easy to do that accidentally.


If that's what's happening, and you want to kill that gesture, go to System Preferences > Mouse > Point & Click and uncheck the item "Smart zoom".

Dec 18, 2011 7:06 AM in response to joyfrompeterborough

Chances are you are using a mouse and are accidentally turning on screen zoom with the mouse. Please look at the Mouse Preferences and change the zoom feature if needed. Another possiblity is you are turning on Zoom accidentaly by key strokes. You can set Zoom to Off is System Preferences - Universal Access - Seeing - check Zoom to Off position. The keystroke command for Zoom on-off is Option Command 8 or FN F11. One last possibility is you are typing Command + which zooms, Command - will unzoom.

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my screen zooms in randomly, I can go to View and and hit actual size and it quickly corrects but then will repeat this on and off daily.

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