Vista - Going to 120 dpi Messes Up Window Structure--Text and Some Text Functions In A Window Are Often Truncated and/or Lost

One has been able to change the character dpi for a long time. Now that
screen resolution has grown so much higher--my laptop native resolution now
is 1920 x 1200--my desire to use 120 (up from 96 dpi) has grown. But on
experimenting with this I've discovered that along with the larger text size
the window layout this text must fit in does not adjust for this increased
size--text gets truncated and even lost. I have one application where so
much was lost that the 'cancel' and 'okay' boxes were missing. I only
yesterday discovered that by changing back to 96 dpi all was well once
again. Of course at 96 dpi all application text size is pretty small if I
continue to use 1920 x 1200.

The questions are whether--while continuing to use 1920 x 1200--there might
be some other way of fixing this problem while using 120 dpi? Thank you.

Some laptops and displays may have an alternative. There are also windows
"accessibility" features, and "virtual" screen utilities. (the video data
screen is larger than the display screen) These display part of the screen
and have a "convenient" way to scroll to other parts. (I've used these in
the past to deal with large spreadsheets.
First, there are a lot of apps that don't do well at other than 96 dpi.
Many are still setup for 1024x768, and really old ones may expect 800x600,
and possibly 72dpi
The laptops and display/video cards I'm referring to have a utility that
allows a "fit to screen" or scaling mode that may or may not help.
Scaling has a price to pay in that it usually slows down the video response.

Part of the problem has to do with windows and "older" functionality that is
still supported, and still used by the apps.



"Susan" <UCE@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Appreciate the effort and explanation here but I think for me it only proves
out the complexity of this issue and that I'm much better off keeping the
dpi at 96 until the whole industry does something about it.

"Chuck" <cdkuder@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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