Windows Magnifier App in 8.1

[zigzag03]

I'm not sure if this belongs here, and certainly if it doesn't I'd be glad for any admin to move it where it belongs. I include it here because the Magnifier appears to be an integral part of the operating system.

My vision-impaired old father depends a great deal on the Magnifier. After the last round of "critical" updates, the program began malfunctioning, doing a sort of double-screen effect that makes it unusable. The cursor changes to a 4-way arrow that I associate with resizing. I can't find any way to manipulate the program that returns it to a useful state.

The computer is of current vintage with a touchscreen monitor and works pretty slick. He can use gestures within the web browsers and in many programs to resize and "magnify", but on the desktop itself this does not work, and there he really needs that magnifier.

I'd be grateful for anyone's input. zz03

 

[Elixer]

Hmm, I am all patched up, and ran the magnifier, both full screen, and lens, and they both seem to work just fine.

Can you show a pic of what you mean isn't working about it?

(BTW, you might get more replies if you ask a mod to move this to 'software for windows')

 

[zigzag03]

yes I considered software for windows, but started here because it didn't seem to be anything that could be separated from the os as a stand-alone program.

I'll grab a screenshot next time i'm over there and post it. Thanks for the reply.

EDIT "full screen or lens" i had not noted that difference was even available before. I pinned Magnifier to the task bar and when he starts it normally he'd get the little control panel and what I would call a "lens" which he could drag to where he needed it. Now we're getting an entire second and duplicate window over the first, with 2 control panels and 2 cursors that move together. Close one window and you close both. Something to do with full screen mode maybe? I didn't see a place to change between modes.