Guest Haz Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 Replaced my 15" monitor with a 17" wide screen. The taskbar icons/fonts are now very small, and the font size in Help is so small as to be unreadable. I have all the 'icon size' and font size (view) cranked up as high as they will go. What to do? WinXP SP2 IE6 OE6 Hax
Guest Rey Santos Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 RE: Icon/Font size on larger monitor Try changing the resolution: Rightclick on the desktop > Properties > Settings tab, then the DPI settings Advanced button > General tab -- Rey "Haz" wrote: > Replaced my 15" monitor with a 17" wide screen. The taskbar icons/fonts are > now very small, and the font size in Help is so small as to be unreadable. > I have all the 'icon size' and font size (view) cranked up as high as they > will go. > > What to do? > > WinXP SP2 IE6 OE6 > > Hax > > >
Guest Haz Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 Re: Icon/Font size on larger monitor Thanks Rey - First I should mention the new monitor is 19", not 17" I tried that. I turned it up to the max number, 120 dpi. That looks really good. I thought I read somewhere, however, that setting it too high would cause other problems. Is 120 too high? I see you can also turn that down by adjustable percentages, maybe I should try that. Any thoughts on this? Thx again Haz "Rey Santos" <ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:69337D96-4308-4B3F-92DC-ECA7323C6968@microsoft.com... > Try changing the resolution: Rightclick on the desktop > Properties > > Settings tab, then the DPI settings Advanced button > General tab > -- > Rey > > > "Haz" wrote: > >> Replaced my 15" monitor with a 17" wide screen. The taskbar icons/fonts >> are >> now very small, and the font size in Help is so small as to be >> unreadable. >> I have all the 'icon size' and font size (view) cranked up as high as >> they >> will go. >> >> What to do? >> >> WinXP SP2 IE6 OE6 >> >> Hax >> >> >>
Guest dadiOH Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 Re: Icon/Font size on larger monitor A lesser resolution will increase the size of everything. You might prefer the effect with that. 1. Right click desktop 2. Properties 3. Settings tab 4. Move the slider dadiOH ___________ Haz wrote: > Thanks Rey - > First I should mention the new monitor is 19", not 17" > I tried that. I turned it up to the max number, 120 dpi. That looks > really good. I thought I read somewhere, however, that setting it > too high would cause other problems. Is 120 too high? I see you can > also turn that down by adjustable percentages, maybe I should try > that. > Any thoughts on this? Thx again > Haz > > > "Rey Santos" <ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:69337D96-4308-4B3F-92DC-ECA7323C6968@microsoft.com... >> Try changing the resolution: Rightclick on the desktop > Properties > >> Settings tab, then the DPI settings Advanced button > General tab >> -- >> Rey >> >> >> "Haz" wrote: >> >>> Replaced my 15" monitor with a 17" wide screen. The taskbar >>> icons/fonts are >>> now very small, and the font size in Help is so small as to be >>> unreadable. >>> I have all the 'icon size' and font size (view) cranked up as high >>> as they >>> will go. >>> >>> What to do? >>> >>> WinXP SP2 IE6 OE6 >>> >>> Hax
Guest Rey Santos Posted September 26, 2008 Posted September 26, 2008 Re: Icon/Font size on larger monitor I don't know any problems that it may cause. I suggested that fix as a method like just shaking your monitor, then bring it back to the default DPI. I also use a 19 inch monitor 120 DPI looks to sharp especially the text so mine set to default of 96 DPI. A good reading about DPI with lots of info: (below) Engineering Windows 7 http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/e7/archive/2008/09/13/follow-up-on-high-dpi-resolution.aspx -- Rey "Haz" wrote: > Thanks Rey - > First I should mention the new monitor is 19", not 17" > I tried that. I turned it up to the max number, 120 dpi. That looks really > good. I thought I read somewhere, however, that setting it too high would > cause other problems. Is 120 too high? I see you can also turn that down > by adjustable percentages, maybe I should try that. > > Any thoughts on this? Thx again > Haz > > > "Rey Santos" <ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:69337D96-4308-4B3F-92DC-ECA7323C6968@microsoft.com... > > Try changing the resolution: Rightclick on the desktop > Properties > > > Settings tab, then the DPI settings Advanced button > General tab > > -- > > Rey > > > > > > "Haz" wrote: > > > >> Replaced my 15" monitor with a 17" wide screen. The taskbar icons/fonts > >> are > >> now very small, and the font size in Help is so small as to be > >> unreadable. > >> I have all the 'icon size' and font size (view) cranked up as high as > >> they > >> will go. > >> > >> What to do? > >> > >> WinXP SP2 IE6 OE6 > >> > >> Hax > >> > >> > >> > > >
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