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Disable ie7 zoom

I've done a couple searches and so far I haven't found anything on this. How would someone disable the zoom feature on Internet Explorer 7 and return to the old system where Text Size was the only thing effected by CTRL and the scroll wheel?
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You can still zoom only the text from the menu (ALT, then VIEW, TEXT SIZE)
" How would someone disable the zoom feature on Internet Explorer 7 and return to the old system where Text Size was the only thing effected by CTRL and the scroll wheel?
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Uninstall IE7 and go back to IE6. But you cannot rewrite IE's code to change the Ctrl key behavior.

But you can try Alt+V+X+S to go smaller, or Alt+V+X+G
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I ended up having to search further and eventually found what I was looking for.  Here are directions for disabling zoom. The one drawback is it does not re-enable the old text size adjustment.

Start -> Run -> RegEdit
Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Zoom
Add a new DWORD value named "ZoomDisabled" and set the value to 1
To enable the zoom feature just set the value to 0.

As is often the case the setting does not take effect on active ie7 windows.
So you found a fix that would ultimately break what you were trying to accomplish?!? correct?

How is that working for you?

Did you try going back to IE6?  Does the Ctrl + Scroll still work in IE6 when you uninstalled IE7?
I'm completely satisfied with the solution but thanks for your concern.
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