Windows 8.1 help

OK I just purchased my new GTX 970 to go with my 50" 4K TV. As of right now, everything is tiny. The resolution is as high as possible and will be even higher when I get the new card in there. Where can I find the settings to make it all bigger; text, games, and video? I sit on my couch about 8-10 Feet away (with a wireless mouse and keyboard) so when everything is so small its very hard to read and some basic applications don't scale at all.

I remember there was a place you could go in I THINK Windows 98 (lol) that you could change fonts, scrollbars, colors, all individually, and the settings would translate to all programs. I know on some programs I can hold ctl+- or use the mouse scroll to enlarge, but its a pita to have to do nearly every time.
 

Troncoso

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Open the search (CTRL + C) and search for "Change font size". That should bring up what you're looking for.
 

spirit

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If you go into Personalisation by right clicking on the desktop and then go into the Display Settings/Screen Resolution (forget the exact wording now, I'm using Windows 10 and it's a little different to 8.1) there should be a slider you can use called 'Change the size of display and text' (or something like that). From there you can scale Windows up whilst still retaining your high resolution which is what you are probably looking for.
 
If you go into Personalisation by right clicking on the desktop and then go into the Display Settings/Screen Resolution (forget the exact wording now, I'm using Windows 10 and it's a little different to 8.1) there should be a slider you can use called 'Change the size of display and text' (or something like that). From there you can scale Windows up whilst still retaining your high resolution which is what you are probably looking for.

That is what I tried. It helped the font size only for icons, not for all windows. which was really weird I thought
 

spirit

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Staff member
That is what I tried. It helped the font size only for icons, not for all windows. which was really weird I thought
Normally it changes the size of the Windows and the taskbar too. Are you sure you're changing the right thing? Post a screenshot of how you are doing it.
 

Okedokey

Well-Known Member
Its simply that the there is no single GPU or OS that is natively perfect at this. You have to tweak, add GPUs and spend time in customising it. Nothing that isn't fun ;)
 
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