Larry,

I may not be much in the way of help, but here goes anyway.  The avatars have to be very small because of the software's capability.  I don't remember the exact sizes, but they tend to be much less than even just 50 kilobytes.  Because of that, any serious attempt to enlarge the image to see it better will be "iffy," depending on how one looks at the images.

A couple of things come to mind that one can do, but they require additional software, outside of the forums themselves.  One can place their mouse cursor over the image and to a "right-click" on the mouse buttons.  That will give a number of options, of which I'll only deal with two.

One, use the "Copy Image" and click on that option with the left mouse button.  Then, open something like Microsoft word for a new document and then do a "right-click" and choose "Paste" from the options available.  That will place the image "copied" on the document.  Then, one can click on the image to activate it where one can see boxes at the corners and sides.  Put the mouse pointer on the lower right hand corner box, click the left button and hold it, and pull the corner box down and to your right.  If you get too big, the image will pixelate to where it is difficult to see any kind of clear picture.

Secondly, one can click on the right button over the image and select "Save Image As" and save the image into a computer file somewhere on one's hard drive.  Then one can go to the "explorer" on one's computer and find that image and double click on it to make it open in other software.  Enlarging there will do the same as what happens in the document mentioned above, meaning that the image will again "pixelate" to where it still might not be beneficial.

In my own case, I keep a magnifying glass in a cabinet just above my computer station to use for looking at avatars.

Hopefully, someone can come along and give you better options.

Terry

cherylbrv wrote:

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On a PC, pressing CTL and "+" will enlarge everything on the screen (CTL and "-" will decrease it).

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 Thanks, Cheryl.  I had forgotten about that procedure.  One can also hold down the "CTRL" key and use the "roller" control on the mouse instead of using "+" and "-" to adjust the size.

Terry