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Windows DPI scaling: fix specific app with tiny text
I have a Windows 8.1 laptop (Dell XPS) with a high-DPI screen (15" 3840x2160), and two external monitors which are normal DPI (19" 1920x1200). (No font changes from defaults.)
Windows 8 seems to know ...
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Cannot completely disable DPI scaling
I have an old (1995 old) image program that needs to display high-resolution images.
I tried different settings, but I always get one of the following effects:
Display at 200% scale, run program ...
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Windows 8.1 DPI per monitor: In which situations does it interpolate?
I'm curious about the new "DPI per monitor" feature of Windows 8.1.
My question concerns legacy applications that do support a global DPI setting, but are not yet "per monitor DPI aware". These ...
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How do I make Windows scale the taskbar correctly after I switch to monitors with different DPIs?
I have a laptop that has a native 3200x1800 15" high-DPI display, and a docking station connected to two 1920x1200 23" monitors.
If I sign in while the external monitors are disconnected, the task ...
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Using multiple screens with very different DPI simultaneously in Windows 8.1?
I'm running Windows 8.1 inside VMWare Fusion 6. I have two screens:
Macbook Pro Retina aka MBPr (15", 220 ppi)
External HDMI monitor (24", 96 ppi)
VMWare Fusion IS indeed allowing me to use the ...
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