Re: Start menu items inncorrectly sized when changing screen DPI

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From: DanS (t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t_at_a.d.e.l.p.h.i.a..n.e.t)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 05:58:18 -0600

"=?Utf-8?B?W3NtaWxlcl0=?=" <[smiler]@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:9293810C-EFAD-40C5-B6AE-BB71854E09C1@microsoft.com:

> Last night I hooked up a new 17" monitor to my PC, and naturally
> wanted to take advantage of the new resolution (previously I was using
> a 15"). The most comfortable (as far as flicker is concerned)
> resolution was 1280x968. However, to make the text readable, I had to
> set up the DPI of the monitor. I set the 'Custom...' setting under
> Display Properties>Settings>Advanced to 104% so that holding a ruler
> up to the screen gave exactly and inch on screen. I saved these
> settings, restarted, and I had a beautiful presentation with all fonts
> the correct size. However, on opening the start menu, the width the
> the menu was not wide enough to show all the text in the menu.
> Presumiably the start menu is sized to the text before the text is
> scaled up. This is a serious bug and should be rectified.
> Also, I hope there will be better integration of the DPI setting in
> Longhorn, which should better support scaling with its vector
> graphics. Is it really that difficult in the setup process to ask the
> user to measure an inch on the screen?

flicker is not caused by the screen resolution, it caused by most likely
having the refresh rate set to 60 hz, which is pretty much default for any
video driver's installed.

i would also suspect that setting the resolution to a non-3:4 ratio will
cause some display problems as well.

the preferable way to change the display size of items is thru the display
properties -> appearance tab -> advanced. from there you can change the
sizes of windows elements individually. for example, you can increase or
decrease the size of the desktop icons....or the font size of the title
bars.... or the size of the menu font.

regards,

DanS

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