{"id":8239,"date":"2016-11-05T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T11:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=8239"},"modified":"2018-01-16T01:42:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T01:42:11","slug":"change-dpi-scaling-settings-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/change-dpi-scaling-settings-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change DPI Scaling Settings in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lower DPI will make screen elements (for example, icons, fonts and windows) appear smaller and a higher setting will make them appear bigger. By default Windows has system-wide scaling setting of 96 DPI. In this tutorial we’ll show you 3 ways to change Windows 10 DPI settings to the scaling level you want.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Change Windows 10 DPI Settings from Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Right-click an empty area on your desktop, and then select Display settings<\/strong> from the context menu.\n

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  2. The Settings app will open the Display<\/strong> tab. In the right pane, click on the drop-down menu to “Change the size of text, apps, and other items<\/strong>” and select the DPI percentage you want to set for your display.\n

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  3. Just underneath that you’ll see a link labelled “Custom scaling<\/strong>“. If you don’t like the default scale levels, you can click that link to set a custom scaling percent from 100 to 500.\n

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  4. When you’re done, sign out and sign in to see the DPI changes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Change Windows 10 DPI Settings from Control Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open the Control Panel in Large icons view. Click Display<\/strong>.\n

      \"display\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    2. Under Change size of items, click on the set a custom scaling level<\/strong> link.\n

      \"set-custom-scaling-level\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    3. This brings up the familiar old Custom sizing options<\/strong> dialog. From there, you can select the scaling percentage you want from the drop-down menu, or drag the ruler left or right to the scaling percentage that suits your monitor.\n

      \"custom-sizing-options\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    4. Click OK<\/strong> and sign out for the new DPI settings to take effect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Method 2: Change Windows 10 DPI Settings Using Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Press the Windows key + R to open the Run box. Type regedit<\/strong> and hit Enter to access Registry Editor.\n

        \"regedit-via-run\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      2. Navigate to the following registry key in the left pane.
        \nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop<\/code><\/li>\n
      3. In the right pane you’ll see two settings labeled Win8DpiScaling<\/strong>, LogPixels<\/strong>. In my example, LogPixels<\/em> is set to (decimal) 96 for 96 DPI.\n

        \"Win8DpiScaling\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

      4. Set Win8DpiScaling<\/strong> to 0 if you want to disable DPI scaling, or set it to 1 for enabling custom DPI scaling. When Win8DpiScaling<\/strong> is set to 1, you can then change the DPI scaling level by modify the LogPixels<\/strong> value.<\/li>\n
      5. When it’s done, close the Registry Editor and reboot your computer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        A lower DPI will make screen elements (for example, icons, fonts and windows) appear smaller and a higher setting will make them appear bigger. By default Windows has system-wide scaling setting of 96 DPI. In this tutorial we’ll show you 3 ways to change Windows 10 DPI settings to the scaling level you want. Method […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[3101,3100,3099],"class_list":["post-8239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-change-windows-10-dpi","tag-disable-dpi-scaling-windows-10","tag-windows-10-dpi-settings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8239"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10936,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8239\/revisions\/10936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}