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sshehab · ‎07-26-2011

Hi guys,

i just bought hp pavilion dv6-6190 actually it 's a very powerful laptop , but I'm facing weird problem that everything on the screen is small specially the font , i hardly can read the web sites or anything else , i checked the resolution i found it 1920*1080 ,my eyes began to pop out LOL, i don't know how to fix this, i changed the resolution to 1366x768 it's semi fine now but the colours are washed out !!! my old laptop was 1,280 x 800 i was so comfortable with this resolution but i can find it in my new one , by the way when is it recommended to use 1920x1080 resolution ? really i need help because my eyes began to hurt me 😞

Thanks
Sherif

sfawzy · ‎07-27-2011

well you can change the fonts only to do so plz follow these steps.

Windows gives you three preset choices (100%, 125%, or 150%) for making text, icons, and other items on your screen larger than normal size. This is the quickest and simplest way to change their size. But if you prefer, you can change their size to any number between 100% and 500% of normal size using the custom dots per inch (DPI) scale.

Open Screen Resolution by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, and then, under Appearance and Personalization, clicking Adjust screen resolution.
Click Set custom text size (DPI) in the left pane.
Click the scale (ruler), drag the setting to whatever percentage size increase you want (100%-500%), and then click OK. (If you prefer, you can type a number between 100 and 500 in the box next to Scale to this percentage of normal size, and then click OK.)
On the Display screen, click Apply.
To see the change, close all of your programs and then log off of Windows. This change will take effect the next time you log on.

Customize the size of the text that displays on your screen.

Note

If you set the DPI too high for your display, it can increase the size of some items by so much that they no longer fit on your screen.

To make text and on-screen items clearer in programs that aren't designed for high DPI

If you set the dots per inch (DPI) higher than 144 while you're running Aero (the premium visual experience of Windows), text and other items on the screen might appear blurry in some programs that aren't designed for high–DPI display in this version of Windows. You can avoid this issue by using Windows XP style DPI scaling for these programs.

Some programs display better using Windows XP style DPI scaling.

Open Screen Resolution by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, and then, under Appearance and Personalization, clicking Adjust screen resolution.
Click Set custom text size (DPI) in the left pane.
Select the Use Windows XP style DPI scaling check box, and then click OK.
To see the change, close all of your programs and then log off of Windows. This change will take effect the next time you log on.

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sfawzy · ‎07-26-2011

well you have a high resloution screen this means that you can display more content in the same area. this is why everything themes to be very small. font and icons are sized in pixels on the screen. you should always use 1920x1080 resultoion as running an lcd on non-native resultion makes everything seems fuzzy and colors seems washed out. to fix the font and icons problem you can increase the font size and icon size in the display settings. in your web browser use (ctrl) + (+) to increase the font and (ctrl)+(-) to decrease the font.

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sshehab · ‎07-26-2011

Ya i do this in the browser but i wanna permanent solution , to make the fonts fine and colours not washed out..

Thanks
Sherif

sfawzy · ‎07-26-2011

which browser are you using also did you try to change the font from the display settings

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sshehab · ‎07-26-2011

I'm using chrome, ya but still colors washed out , i'm now using 1366x768 resolution it's semi fine for me rather 1920x1080

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Sherif

sfawzy · ‎07-26-2011

set you screen resultion back to 1920x1080 and follow these insturctions

http://www.techtalkz.com/windows-7/516049-how-change-font-size-icon-size-windows-7-a.html

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sshehab · ‎07-26-2011

i returned back the resolution to 1920x1080 , and changed the DPI to Large but colurs still washed out !!

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Sherif

sfawzy · ‎07-26-2011

can you check your brightness settings

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sshehab · ‎07-26-2011

ON the MAX

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Sherif

sfawzy · ‎07-26-2011

can you tell me when did the colors started to look like washed out

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