How to change the font size in Windows Vista
Sun, 09/23/2007 - 21:10 — Ciprian
Some people might have problems reading the text of the icons and menus in Windows Vista. The font size can be too small and making it bigger might help. Windows Vista 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 Dots per inch scale or DPI. To adjust it, just follow the steps outlined below.
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 UAC is turned on 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. 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.
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Font size can be changed in Vista
Just right-click on the desktop and select "Personalize". Then select "Window Color and Appearance" and press "Open classic appearance properties". Then press the "Advanced" button and choose "Icon" from the item drop-down. Then choose a smaller size like 8 or 7 from the Size drop-down. Apply the changes and your desktop font will be the new size. Simple. :-S
font color
I'm interested in changing the COLOR of the font used in Windows Mail, not the SIZE. Presently I have a light blue motif which is almost impossible to read. When I have an attachment, I can hardly discern the "paperclip."
Windows Mail Font Color
Easy... Tools - Options - Compose - Font Settings - you can then change the color as well as font and font size.
my fonts and icons are too big
How can I change my font size and icons into normal size? I already did the DPI thingy and i put it into 100% which is the normal size. It doesn't make any changes. How can I put into the normal size?
font
in xp, you can change the size of title bar, the font size of icon, even font size of message box, how can you do that in vista?
i dont want to change it with configuring DPI, because it affects all font size. i just want o increase the size of icon's font
This was already explained
This was already explained in a previous comment above.
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Hi
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I need to change the font size in Windows mail and these solutions do not work. In regular text e-mail I can click View then choose a larger font but this will not work in many e-mails such as that from major publishers like the NYT or Washington post. The change from largest to smallest is simply not discernable. In most programs I can use the scroll wheel to enlarge the view but this function does not work in Windows mail. Must something this simple be so difficult?
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scroll down or get to the "ok" or "apply" box.... ???????
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