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I wanted to develop on my notebook, but I miss the full HD resolution. I would like to fit more things on the screen. I realized, that when I used TeamViewer on my 1366 * 768 Px screen it was able to show a full HD resolution I was connecting to. It did not look very tasty, because it had to calculate how to show many pixels in less pixels, but I could read and work like this.

Is there any way I could simulate this resolution on my notebook? I do not care it will look bad, sometimes I just want the huge space it gives me trading for the imaging quality.

Is there a way to do this on Windows 8.1?

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    I don't know of any way to do this to your entire desktop, but some apps allow you to zoom out.
    – aphoria
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 13:25
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    Is there an app that would allow this to happen to other apps? I want this with NetBeans IDE
    – Ev0oD
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 13:31
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    Try ALT+scrollwheel to zoom in and out.
    – aphoria
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 13:48
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    Yes, this works for the source code. But I want the whole NetBeans IDE to do this. I want the whole Windows to do this. I do not want just generally fonts to decrease in size..
    – Ev0oD
    Commented Dec 19, 2014 at 11:17

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According to my knowledge - no.

When you connect remotely, there is some scaling done. But when you work on your notebook, the resolution is 1:1 to your real life, physical pixels. Buy new notebook, with higher resolution. That's why they are more expensive. They've got more physical pixels.

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    buying a new one wouldnt occur to me, thanks for a helpful answer. AFAIK Apple devices can do it, so I think that technologically it thus must be doable, I just do not know how.
    – Ev0oD
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 13:16
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    Apple got this Retina display. It's just LCD display with pixels packed up really tight. That's all. Simplifying you've got matrix made of 1366 x 768 pixels and every can shine in one colour at a time, which altogether gives you image. You can't double resolution by making pixels to display 2 colours at once.
    – Diodak
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 13:21
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    I completely understand the concept of pixels. I know you can not show two colors on one. I do not mean new apple machines with retina display, scaling down is out of what I am asking for (because it is obvious). Scaling up over the available pixels is what I am interested in. I am looking for scaling the same way it is done remotely, but locally.
    – Ev0oD
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 13:28

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