Increasing text size in windows 7

While I thought they were gorgeous, not everyone agreed, insisting that the higher resolution made the fonts too small to read. This complaint was most prominent among the middle-aged salesmen who I quickly worked out were too vain to admit they were now of an age at which they needed reading glasses. Even in those days I did not suffer fools gladly, especially having had to wear glasses since age 9, and I almost certainly upset at least one of them by subtly suggesting they might need to visit an optician.

Lowering the screen resolution to below that of the native screen resolution has always offended me, because the subsequent hardware scaling invariably looks awful. For a long time, Windows has allowed you to combat this by increasing the DPI of the fonts, though until Windows Vista the result was nice big fonts alongside hideous stretched icons and UI elements.

In Windows 7, this setting has finally been made per-user, and has now come into its own. As much as I still enjoy telling middle-aged men to get their eyes tested, telling 5 year-olds that they need to man up and learn to read is going a bit far.

So, when I deployed some new high-resolution monitors to our lower school lab, I wanted a better solution. It turns out this is as simple as setting a single registry key, which I did using Group Policy Preferences. The key involved is:. End result: bigger fonts for the kids, and less time wasted as they struggle to read the menus. It also means I longer face a discrimination suit by telling the already-bespectacled and genuinely vision-impaired teacher that he can either like Windows 7 or go jump out the window.

Tags: dpi , windows7. Which will probably be next Summer. So — no rush! Around than 7 years ago, I installed a set of 80 or so Sunray s that I managed to pick up for free.

The CRTs on those things were spectacularly good for the time and I had to work hard to get the resolution up to x to allow staff to read the writing. OR right click the desktop and choose Personalize. Click on Windows Color and Appearance.

Use this dropdown box to change the font for various parts of the Windows 7 user interface. You can also change the actual font, and font color and background on many items too.

Click the Apply button to immediately see the font changes. You can also change the Inactive Title Bar if you want. But I consider that optional. Notes: This does not seem to change text in tabs. Some items cannot be change from Remote Desktop. Hi there, Recently I just plugged my laptop windows 7, whooh! Works great but i have to sit at a distance, so everything can be sometimes really hard to read, all the icons are fine though, i can differentiate between them perfectly.

Once you're in, under 'Item', there are a lot of option e. Some of them are really easy to understand will change what, and if not, there is a box above it which shows you what it is changing. Sometimes though, it's not easy to workout what its changing, and what you're changing isn't in the box above. Could you please post a list saying the name of each item and exactly what it'll change with an explained example please, it'll be very helpful for me in A LOT of ways.

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