text size

I have a computer that connected to a 42 inch lcd and I use 1920x1080 and dpi is already on 200% the desktop is really good on that setup and apps are fit perfectly on everything that use the desktop, but the metro interface is to small and aps on the metro are burly Readable if is there a...

I have a win 7 pro laptop that has some applets too small to read. Most apps including desktop are fine. However if you right click on the task bar and choose properties. The applet appears with very small font. I've tried uping the message box text with no improvement.

I am a newby and have been using Thunderbird for my e-mail account. Somehow, Thunderbird was updated to 10.0. Now my e-mail texts are so small that I can barely read them. I downloaded an application that allowed me to increase the size of the fonts in the listing. However, the messages are...

Recently I've been having issues with the way text is displayed on my computer. Everything had been working fine until a few weeks ago, and I've had this install of windows running for over a year now with no issues. Anyways, the problem is that a lot of text looks glitchy and is very difficult...

I've discovered how to increase the font size used for desktop icons, titlebars, menus etc via the advanced display preferences under Win7, but Outlook still uses a teensy font to render the names of my folders in the folders & favourites panels. Does anyone know how to increase the fonts...

Hello, Is there a way to make Windows 7 text larger without skewing the size of my other programs? I would like to go higher with my DPI, say 175% to make my text bigger when I am reading articles online. However, when I go this high, it grows all the prompt boxes in other programs such as...

Just started using a new computer with Windows 7. All the programs I open have smaller text than on all my other computers. It is really hard to see all the icons, drop-down menu items, etc. on the programs because of this. Is there any way to change the way all my installed programs appear...

Hi everyone, I have problem with size of fonts in some applications. For example in Mozzila Thunderbird i have very small fonts on message body. It is not caused by setup of Thunderbird! The same problem i have in print preview in some application. Fonts in preview are just 50%. Thank you...

Here's one I haven't seen before. I upgraded an older Pentium 4 socket 478 from Vista 32 to Windows 7 Home Premium 32 doing a clean install. I thought that the desktop icons looked larger than they should and I was surprised to see under "personalization", "display", that "larger, 150%" was the...

I desire to personalize the disply (ie fonts, text, etc) in this new copy of Windows 7. How can I achieve this task then set these new settings, permanently? I have a vision problem and would like to enlarge, everything on or off-line. Also, I use Mozilla as a browser and would like to...

Hi, Anyone out there using a higher DPI value? I am, and have encountered a problem. First of all, I need relatively large text in all programs, so I have disabled XP-style scaling in the advanced DPI properties dialog. Doing this will make non-DPI-aware applications larger. This works fine...

Hi, New to the forums. I've been running Vista Professional on a low-end Acer desktop for about a year. I installed the Win7 RC this weekend - trying to figure out whether I should buy the upgrade. On the whole, everything went very smoothly. Seems like Windows Media Player has really...

Hi, I just installed Win7, I have a 22" widescreen monitor, the native resolution is 1680x1050, which makes things WAY too small to comfortably use the computer. When I try reducing the resolution, everything, especially text, gets quite blurry. My video card is a GeForce 8500GT and the...

I'd love to set this machine up like I had with XP and a touch screen. There was an advanced tab on settings that included a drop down box so that I could adjust scrollbar size, text, icon sizes etc. Win 7 have this config tool?

I have a laptop with an HDMI output and I like switching between my laptop's actual screen and my 22 inch hdtv. the problem is That Whenever I output HDMI I have to go to windows control panel and make text and everything 25 percent larger than normal. I need to know if there is a way to make 2...

On Win XP, when you right click on My Computer > Properties > Appearance Tab > Advanced, you can change many things such as Message Box, Select and Normal, Icon spacing and size, Text size for Icons, font and font size, bold or not, etc. :rolleyes: Where on Win 7 can I find these properties so...