Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
First off stve, thanks for the reply.
The good news is that you've have actually looked at my specs, and the bad news is that l missed out on updating the screen res! It is as you say, 1680 x 1050. (l've now upgrade them)
Have already tried what you suggested but it only seems to effect the web page itself, and in IE, the font size of the favorites listed down the left hand side.
It's not too much of a problem and l'll live with it, putting my nose right up to the screen on the odd occassion.
It's just strange that in adding Google search to the toolbar, l'm sure that the text typed in was larger in the XP OS than it is in the Windows 7 OS.
Oh well, such is life! Having upgraded my OS, suppose l'll need to upgrade my glasses as well!!
Thanks