• First of all, large fonts, such as that in your post, can be just as annoying as small fonts... please keep that in mind
• Second, you could try: Properties>Settings>Advanced and selecting a DPI of 120 (your DPImight be set to 96), This should make just about everything a more 'viewable' size (including icons and fonts). Try this and post back here if you are still not satisfied.

Message Edited by sakor1 on 11-11-2003 05:34 PM

sakor1, how is setting the DPI to 96 going to help?  That will only make fonts appear even smaller.

nimmer, as you suspected, there has been a lot of info regarding this issue which has been posted in this forum.  I personally have made many posts regarding the appearance of fonts on high resolution displays.  I'm obviously not going to repeat everything I've already said, so I suggest that you use the Search feature.  If you use the Advanced Search on my Username, you'll find many threads with good info.

Thanks to both of you for the valuable information.  Again, I apologize for the large fonts, but when I originally typed the thread I thought I had set the font size to a 12.  I'll be a little more careful next time.

One_Human, I'll try the search and hopefully I'll be able to 'see' things a little 'larger'.

 

Also, do you know if there is any 'fix' to making the cursor's also larger?  Or is the fonts/icons/cursors size issue all related to the screen's high resolution.

 

Thanks..

 

sakor1, how is setting the DPI to 96 going to help? 

Whoops, sorry, I had my 96 & 120 mixed around, I meant to try changing dpi from 96 to 120, boy is my face red

Mallu2u, I did find the quickset utility you spoke about but when i ran it i didn't see anything that had to do with fonts and icons, it seemed to be more about power management.  Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep looking

Nimmer,

LEFT click on the utility icon and not right click and you shall see the option for Icons and Toolbars where you can change from Small, Medium, Large, etc...

Hey guys, based on what I read on the threads that you guys recommended, it looks like I'm going to have to live with living in miniature. Should have done a little more homework as one_human suggests, but now it looks like I'm going to have to live with my situation.

However, not being one to give up, what do you think is the likely hood that Dell will come to the rescue of us old timers and come up with a 'solution' to the video on these UXGA displays?

Next thought, is it possible to replace the video screen with a SXGA screen?  Any idea the difficulty from a hardware perspective and what other 'software' changes or Bios changes would be required?  Any idea what the cost might be?  Is this feasible or am I barking up the wrong tree?

I just hate to cave in to the notion that Dell doesn't seem to want to help out in this matter.

 

Again, thanks guys for the very informative information and knowledge.

Nimmer,

When was it that you bought the system. If within 30 days, go ahead and ask them to replace the laptop. I just did the same since I started with WUGA and then replaced my laptop for WXSGA+ . In fact I even upgraded to a more porwerful CPU with the savings since WUGA is more expensive! I did not choose to live with what I have. Did the Left Click on Fonts...work for you though?

-mallu2u

mallu2u

It's been longer than 30 days that I've had the system so I'm probably on my own for getting the screen replaced, thanks for the suggestion.

I did left click on fonts and it did help somewhat but it still left a lot to be desired.  I learned a valuable lesson on this one, bigger is not necessarly better.

I'm pursuing the option of replacing the screen with the WXSGA+ with Dell, It's going to cost me some cash but at least I'll be satisfied with a display that I can read instead of going thru life with a squint in my eyes....