{"id":1050,"date":"2010-05-21T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2019-06-25T05:43:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T05:43:53","slug":"how-to-disable-the-zoom-level-option-in-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-disable-the-zoom-level-option-in-internet-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable the Zoom Level Option in Internet Explorer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our readers wrote asking me how to disable the zoom feature in Internet Explorer, as the zoom level in Internet Explorer changes when the CTRL key is accidentally pressed when scrolling a webpage using mouse. Sometimes this does happen to me as well, and the only workaround that I know is to disable the zoom level feature altogether. This also prevents you from changing the zoom level via the View menu in Internet Explorer. If you don&#8217;t use the zoom feature in IE, go ahead with this registry edit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Disabling the Zoom Level Feature in Internet Explorer<\/h2>\n<p>Start Regedit.exe and navigate to:<\/p>\n<pre>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Zoom<\/pre>\n<p><i>If the Zoom key doesn&#8217;t exist by default, create one manually.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Create a new DWORD (32 bit) value named <b>ZoomDisabled<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Double-click ZoomDisabled and set its data to <b>1<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Exit the Registry Editor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/archived\/1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/archived\/2.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our readers wrote asking me how to disable the zoom feature in Internet Explorer, as the zoom level in Internet Explorer changes when the CTRL key is accidentally pressed when scrolling a webpage using mouse. Sometimes this does happen to me as well, and the only workaround that I know is to disable &#8230; <a title=\"How to Disable the Zoom Level Option in Internet Explorer?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-disable-the-zoom-level-option-in-internet-explorer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Disable the Zoom Level Option in Internet Explorer?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-explorer","tag-internet-explorer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1902,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/autosuggest-autocomplete-explorer-address-bar-run-dialog\/","url_meta":{"origin":1050,"position":0},"title":"Enable or Disable Auto-Suggest and Inline AutoComplete in Run Dialog and Explorer","author":"Ramesh","date":"March 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"As you type a path in the File Explorer or Windows Explorer address bar, the Run dialog or in the Create New Task dialog in Task Manager, the file or folder name suggestions are shown in a list box. 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