Some people might have problems reading the text of the icons and menus in Windows. The font size can be too small and making it bigger might help. Windows gives users the possibility to make the text and other items easier to see by making them larger. This can be done by increasing the so called or DPI. To adjust it, just follow the steps outlined below.
In Windows 10, first click the Windows logo in the left-bottom corner of the page and then click 'Settings'. Then click 'System'.
Now there's a slider on this page that you can use to change the size of text, apps and other items. In Windows 8, First right click on your desktop and select 'screen resolution'.
Question: 'I can make the folder icons larger with display settings but when I choose large or extra-large fonts, this has no effect on the fonts used in the folders or the email line items in my inbox.' Only Outlook 2010 includes the ability to change the font used for folder names. Look on the View ribbon, Navigation Pane, Options to change the font used for folder names.
Then click 'Make text and other items larger or smaller' text link at the bottom. Now you can change the size of the font. In Vista, first, right click on your desktop and click on Personalize.
Alternatively, you can go to Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Personalization. In the Personalization window, go to the left pane and click on Adjust font size (DPI). If you will need to make an additional confirmation so that the DPI Scaling window will launch. You can choose the default scale of 96 DPI or a larger one of 120 DPI, which makes the text more readable. If these two options are not enough you can click on the Custom DPI button and choose another size (DPI). In the Custom DPI Setting window you can select the desired percentage for the DPI increase.
You have the following options: 100% for the normal size of 96 DPI, 125% for 120 DPI, 150% for 144 DPI and 200% for 192 DPI. If you set the DPI higher than 96, and you are running Windows Aero, the text and other items on the screen might appear blurry in some programs that are not designed for high–DPI display in Windows Vista. You can avoid this issue by using Windows XP style DPI scaling.
I updated yesterday to Yosemite and puttered around in Office2011 Mac Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It wasn't a deep tryout though PP worked perfect. Word & Excel I have been having issues with for over a year now when an update moved some files they put in system around and, didn't delete the old locations and I can't figure out what to remove. Outlook: Office for Mac 2011 includes a version of Outlook that’s similar to the Windows version in scope and power. It combines most of the features you find in the Apple Mail, Calendar, and Contacts applications.
Just check the appropriate option and press on OK. The change can be applied only after a system restart. Close all the running applications, save your open documents and then press on Restart Now.
After a reboot, the font size will be changed. Related articles. Under the Custom DPI window try entering something like '75%' in the box. It's a ComboBox, a text field with a set of preset options but you can also enter a value of your choice.
Microsoft just figures that if you're changing the system DPI you're trying to make it more accessible to users that need such accommodations. And if that doesn't work, I'm sure it's stored as a Registry entry somewhere. Just hunt around on Google, it shouldn't take too long to find. (Disclaimer: I use Fedora Linux so I don't have problems like this. It's been 6 months since I've used Vista any farther than assisting others with their computers infected with it. These instructions may or may not work for you.) --Dan. It seems since I installed Vista my mail is freaking out.
Where the headers are sometimes the text will increase by itself but if I open an email I get a tiny message window with teensy letters I can barely read. Then the text in the message will sometimes increase to a huge size too. At that point the scroll won't work correctly. If I click on an email in the upper window it won't scroll but if I move the cursor down to the preview the upper items scroll and vice versa.
Am I losing my mind or has my computer lost HIS mind?!? My new HP laptop keeps changing it monitor resolution to a smaller size ( higher resoluition ) on my monitor. I have an older dell cathoid tube monitor and running windows XP through a HP docking station. This does this quite often and I like the larger icons ( lower resolution) due to my age and eyes sight.
I am not running Vista but XP pro service pack 3. My NOC team says that is a common problem but does not know how to fix it.
I change it through the control panel / display setting resolution but it keeps / flipping or switching back.
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics () Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Advanced Under Item, scroll down to Icon Spacing(Horizontal) and change size to larger number. May need to change other Items - eg. Vertical Spacing, Icon size, etc. To view way want Icon Text to show on desktop.