Comments on: Windows Vista DPI scaling: my Vista is bigger than your Vista

By: SY

SY — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:02:07 +0000

HUMMM.. WILL. LOLZZ

By: Sidhu

Sidhu — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:39:44 +0000

Thanks Eric and Carol for your help. Carol your method worked. What a freedom I feel. I am new and I felt stuck.
Everybody wanted money. The computer maker, windows and even Mcafee where this whole problem started for me. I got pop saying I need to update windows and my font size changed for no reason at all. When I changed the font size, I got stuck. I spent two days and i did not want pay. Thank God I came to this site. you guys saved me some money.

By: Patricio Humanante Ramos

Patricio Humanante Ramos — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:51:09 +0000

Cordial regards.
I have a laptop of 13.3 inches with Windows Vista Business,
And to see better I have changed from 96 to 120 dpi, this way I see much better but I feel that it tires the sight this can be a truth or is alone a my perception.
My questions are:
Does to increase the dpi help or not to the vision?
Finally does to increase the dpi affect the performance of the laptop or not?

Thank you for your answers

Patricio Humanante R.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:36:16 +0000

WOW…thanks to Carol for the tip on solving my DPI issue. Carol your method worked !!!
Just to review: I had re-set the DPI -see steps below**
The answer, Carol, is eloquent…get back into the DPI scaling panel & select the default 96 DPI then hit enter & viola the “restart” window pops up & off ya go…thanks again…I’ve been working on this problem off & on for a week…I first noticed it when I needed to back up my Nokia phone in Nokia PC suite & couldn’t get to the bottom of that page either…

**R clicking the desk top & choosing Personalize, then opening DPI scaling panel & adjusting the font size from default of 96 to 144. So now that everything had changed I could not pull up the screen and scroll to the bottom of the page so I that I could confirm that I wanted to change the text size again.

By: tericay

tericay — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:06:38 +0000

Thanks Eric. I had been freaking out for about 20 minutes before it occurred to me I wasn’t the first person with this problem and I found your answer in just a minute or two. It easily fixed my problem.

What I was really trying to do was find a way to make the Quick Launch & Taskbar Icons larger. Anyone have an answer for this? If I find one, I’ll share.

By: Erodov: Dell and Samsung Release 23" QWXGA Monitors

Erodov: Dell and Samsung Release 23" QWXGA Monitors — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:00:28 +0000

[...] a feature in its Windows Vista operating system that attempts to solve this issue. The feature (DPI Scaling) allows users to increase the size of icons, interfaces and fonts to compensate for the high [...]

By: Igor Levicki

Igor Levicki — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:50:00 +0000

When you do that scaling try opening System Properties dialog or any other dialog which uses Shell Dlg font and see how it looks like. There is still absolutely no scaling for that font and those dialogs look like they just came from 1980 — there is simply no excuse for that.

By: Windows 7 DPI scaling: my 7 is bigger than your 7 - istartedsomething

Windows 7 DPI scaling: my 7 is bigger than your 7 - istartedsomething — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:48:31 +0000

[...] know how high DPIs look in Windows Vista, so how does it look in Windows 7? Well I’ve compiled this set of screenshots again to show [...]

By: shabeer

shabeer — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:46:16 +0000

my operating system is vista ultimate you know problum all alphabet is is very slim

By: iain

iain — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:10:51 +0000

Eric thank you for your tab remedy which worked perfectly on my Vista notebook.