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How Do I Change The Default Windows Font Size? - Without changing DPI, of course.

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How Do I Change The Default Windows Font Size? - Without changing DPI, of course.

tricky77puzzle
I know there's an option in Ubuntu to change all the font sizes of the general system, the windows, and etc. Now I'm trying to do this in Windows. I've changed everything about the windows except for the general system size. How do I do this?

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Saint_Michael
You right click on your desktop > click on properties > click the appearance tab and your font options then, and you can click on the advance tab to get even more options. So that is the windows method of changing the font size.

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tricky77puzzle
QUOTE(Saint_Michael @ Mar 25 2008, 04:41 PM) *
You right click on your desktop > click on properties > click the appearance tab and your font options then, and you can click on the advance tab to get even more options. So that is the windows method of changing the font size.


I did that, but the general font size still didn't change. (That is, the window contents themselves.) When I try to select "Window", the font size is disabled.

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mikeyboy63
QUOTE(tricky77puzzle @ Mar 27 2008, 02:09 PM) *
I did that, but the general font size still didn't change. (That is, the window contents themselves.) When I try to select "Window", the font size is disabled.


If you're talking about changing the font size within programs like OpenOffice or MS Office, etc., Windows doesn't control those font sizes. You have to change them from within the programs.

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mweber
Hi,

Im sure if you google it there will be a googlebar app that can do all this for you,

If still in doubt go into the programs help menu and search for it...

The key words would be something like

Font
Custom Size
Font options

Etc

if you still have problems repost to this reply and i can email you a exact step by step walk through

Laters

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joeblogg
i tried doing that as well but it doesn't work. you can change the font and stuff and the icon size but i'm not sure about the font size. ] some fonts are bigger than others so you can change the font ot a different font.

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Hi there, I have a similar question, I have changed all my font sizes, but there are some I can't, for example, when you copy some files or an application show you an informative window of progress, those are the font I would like to enlarge; when I'm using higher screen resolutions, I just can see some minibugs on my screen, I'm using windows xp, Do you know if VISTA gives more control for font resizing????



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I think the window vista is terribly not user friendly. I cannot even find a way to change the monitor setting  mainly the font size. I don't get some of the AOL mail because the size of the text was too large.



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