![]() How can I make the text on my screen larger?//I am “old” < grin> . I suppose that they are in a six or eight- point font. Can I make the screen text larger? Say to a 1. 0- or 1. I know how you feel. My eyes aren’t all that they used to be either. The good news is that it’s actually easy to make the fonts bigger, but the setting is hidden well. ![]() The bad news is that it’s also easy to do the wrong thing and end up with something that seems better, but often isn’t. The wrong thing. Changing the screen resolution is the wrong thing to do. In the past, there was an approach that worked fairly well on CRT- style monitors. With the rise of the LCD screen, running at anything other than the screen’s native resolution can have unintended consequences. For example, let’s say that your display is capable of handling a resolution of 1. ![]() InformationWeek.com: News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. Do you find the icon size on Windows Vista desktop too big or too small? The effect of visual appearance on shortcuts and programs icons, is more stark when users. Start menu, Taskbar, Quick Launch, Sidebar, Desktop. This page describes the settings concerning the Windows Vista user interface like the Start menu, Taskbar, Quick. ![]() That’s its native resolution and the resolution at which it works best. To make things appear larger, you then change the resolution that Windows uses to 1. Either of two things will happen: The 1. You’ll note that that’s not an even multiple, so the display now has to “stretch” each pixel that Windows gives it across 1. Because there’s no such thing as a fractional pixel, the monitor just has to try its best – often resulting in images that are indeed “bigger,” but also significantly fuzzier. The 1. 28. 0. No, we’re not going to change the resolution after all, but the link for the setting that we do want is there: Click Make text and other items larger or smaller. As you can see, this setting will increase the size of everything, including text. For comparison, I’ve superimposed the screen at 1. You can see that images, such as the desktop, are unaffected, but all of the text and icons as well as the task bar and windows controls are now 1. Note that when you make this setting change, you may need to logout and then log back into Windows so that it can apply it. I don’t know about you, but I love using the Quick Launch toolbar to run all of my programs and to show the desktop without having to click on the Start button or. Edit Article wiki How to Make Desktop Icons Smaller. Five Methods: Windows 10, 8.1, 7, and Vista Mac OS X Windows XP Disabling Zoom Mode in iOS Android Community Q&A. President Donald Trump listens to Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni as they sit around a table during the G7 Summit in Italy on May 26, 2017 (Jonathan Ernst/Pool. In computing, an icon is a pictogram or ideogram displayed on a computer screen in order to help the user navigate a computer system or mobile device. ![]() ![]() DPI Direct. If the options of 1. DPI, or dots per inch, is what the setting above controls. The default is typically 9. Once again, right- click on the desktop and click Screen Resolution, and then click Make text and other items larger or smaller. In the resulting dialog, click the Set custom text size (DPI) link. You can select a custom percentage by using the drop- down or typing in your own percentage value. You can also click the ruler; hold and drag it to the right and left to make changes as well. In either case, the text will be redrawn to show the effect of the proposed change. Windows XPWindows XP has the same concept for DPI settings, just in a different place. ![]() ![]() Right- click your desktop and click Properties. Select the Settings tab. Click Advanced and then select the General tab. The DPI drop- down in XP has two settings, Normal and Large, but it also has a “Custom setting. Applications aren’t supposed to ignore that and most do not. Most play by the rules. Most. Unfortunately, you may encounter an application where the DPI setting has no effect. Occasionally, you may even encounter worse – applications that use the setting inconsistently so that changing it making a mess of that application’s UI. Blame the application; it’s not playing by the rules. And finally, if you make things too big, you may get a warning from Windows that the setting may result in some things not being accessible. A great example is if things are zoomed in so large that a dialog box is too big to fit on the resulting screen and its OK and Cancel buttons aren’t visible. That’s something that you’ll simply need to compensate for one way or another – either by going back and reducing the DPI setting or by determining if there’s another way to accomplish whatever it is that you’re attempting to do without having things appear off- screen. Update: CTRL+ and CTRL- Many, many people have been commenting that they use the CTRL key and + or – to make text larger or smaller, respectively, or use CTRL plus the mouse wheel. This is a very effective approach, when it works. CTRL+ and CTRL- are application specific, they are not a part of Windows. Now, it just so happens that they’ve been implemented fairly consistently across most web browsers and many email programs. Fantastic. But they will not affect the size of text in, say, Windows itself, or many if not most of the other applications that you might run on your system. The techniques outlined in the article above are about making the text – all of the text regardless of what program you are running – larger (or smaller). That being said, CTRL+ and CTRL- , and CTRL+wheel are very convenient if all you care about is the web page or email that you’re viewing.(Update added 1. Sep- 2. 01. 3.)This is an update to an article originally posted November 1.
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