When you change system DPI Scaling from “Control Panel > Personalization > Adjust font size (DPI)” on Windows Vista, or Font size change in appearance tab of Display properties in Windows XP, you may notice that some dialogs don’t entirely fit on the screen or have truncated icons/text.

When you change system DPI Scaling from “Control Panel > Personalization > Adjust font size (DPI)” on Windows Vista, or from “Control Panel > Display” on Windows 7, you may notice that the displayed font size does not change.

On a Windows Vista-based computer that has a 1280 by 800 screen resolution, you reset the screen font size to the Larger scale (120 DPI) setting. However, when you restart the computer, you see that the logon screen is now clipped. Therefore, you have to scroll down the logon screen to enter your password.

Note: This issue does not occur when you use the Default scale (96 DPI) setting.

The information in this article applies to the following configuration(s):

• Mobility Radeon X1800
• Windows Vista 32bit Edition
• Windows Vista 64bit Edition

Symptoms:
Graphics Adapter dropdown menu is cut off after changing font size (DPI) from 96 to 120 and rebooting

In tip 29 I explained how to change your screen DPI to resize some of your UI elements. On the extreme end, you can resize to 480DPI, which makes everything 500% bigger. The problem with doing that is that everything is so big, some important things can’t be seen on the screen anymore, making it difficult to get back to a more usable DPI. Here’s how I went from 480DPI back to the default 96DPI: Keep reading →