Mar 19, 2019 Change the size of text in Windows 10 using Display settings, zoom in or out in Microsoft Edge, or use Magnifier. To make just the text on your screen larger, adjust the slider under Make text bigger. To make everything larger, including images and apps, choose an option from the drop-down menu under Make everything bigger.
I’m up and running on the new Windows 10 and I like it! The only thing that’s bugging me is that the text under my icons is too small on the Desktop. How do I change the system font text size on Win10? We’ve been running Microsoft Windows 10 for a while now and it’s definitely evolved to the point where the new official release really is a big step forward, a big improvement over both the earlier pre-Windows 8 systems and Windows 8 itself.
Finally we can say adios to the start screen, to the full-screen “Metro” apps and welcome back the good old start menu. If you’ve used the previous systems, however, you’re now faced with two different ways of doing things because the advanced search system that showed up in Win8 has definitely made it into the brave new world of Win10, but, of course, with the resurrection of the start menu, there’s the old-school way of doing things too. Let’s look at both! First off, a click on the Start Menu icon on the lower left pops up the oh-so-colorful new menu: Notice where the (big!) arrow is pointing. That’s the new “Control Panels”. Click or tap on it and you’ll see one of my favorite updates to the Windows OS: Yes, finally.
Microsoft has updated the Settings view. To change the size of the display font text on your Desktop for icons and in programs, you want to modify your “System” settings, so click or tap on the System icon. That’s the main place to make the adjustment you seek: the slider. You can see I have already tweaked my own settings to have all system text show at 125%. On a big, high resolution display, bumping it up a bit from 100% can be easier on the eyes, no question. Not sure what setting you’ll prefer, but you can slide it to different values then click on “Apply” and see if you like the new size.
Restart so the system change is effective throughout the OS (it’ll prompt you to do that). If you don’t like it — things CAN get a bit big!! — then try a different setting and “Apply” that one, until you get just the right size. But let’s say you were curious about the search system. You could ask Cortana or simply use the search box on the Taskbar directly.
Try change text size: There are a lot of possibilities shown, including the curious “change text size on ipad”, which suggests that Windows 10 can run on an iPad. That’s not true, as far as I know! Most importantly, note the green match shown at the top. That’s from the Windows 10 help system and it seems like a good place to start, doesn’t it? Click or tap on it. Well, there ya go. Lots of information with helpful active links.
In fact, click on “use these display settings” and you’ll find yourself back at the Control Panel with the slider. Oh, um, the “Settings window” with the slider.
Hi Dave Great article, but is there some way of retaining the same fonts used in a previous version like windows 7 when so called upgrading to windows 10.? Windows 10 default fonts are rubbish when viewed on my laptop. I have gone through every setting in windows 10 to try to change the font and size but to no avail. Hence have gone back to Windows 7. I like windows 10 but cannot put up with the fonts as a default.
The fonts remind me of something back in the DOS days which were a strain on my eyes back then. Any help would be appreciated.
Runs on laptops, desktops, tablets, and even phones—but even though the operating system should scale accordingly, fonts and icons aren't always perfectly sized for every screen. Luckily, though, there's a handy new menu for adjusting the size of your screen's contents, which you can use to make everything bigger or smaller to match your preferences. Don't Miss: Step 1: Open Display Settings If you'd like to adjust the size and scale of fonts and icons on your screen, you just need to access the right menu. To begin, press the Windows button on your keyboard, then type 'Display Settings' and hit Enter. In windows 7, I was able to get to a dialogue that allowed me to specify the color, size, transparency and boldness of individual screen elements, like tooltips, menus, active/inactive windows, scroll bars, etc. This is very important from an accessibility standpoint, and I cannot find a way to do that in windows 10. Changing font percentage causes problems with fonts being too large for the allotted space, and changing the monitor resolution defeats the purpose of having a high res monitor for photography.
So is there a way to bring back the ability to set individual screen elements? Sandy, I've just joined this community. Like you I have been searching for and failing to find the 'Desktop Properties' dialogue box that existed in Windows versions 3.1 to 7 (at least) so that I could customise my desktop to suit my ailing vision. I think it was carried forward to Windows 10 because I used it to create the desktop on this 2016 laptop but the option seems to have been deleted or disabled by a subsequent Windows 10 'update' (i.e. 'Microsoft knows better than its customers how they can use Windows'.) Please, did you get a positive answer and, if so, would you bounce it to me?