Change the Size of Displayed Items in Windows 8

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   Mouse over the lower-left corner of the screen and click there to open the start menu

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   Click "Control Panel"

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   If it's not on the start screen, choose it from the "Apps" menu

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   To do so, click the down arrow button in the lower-left corner of the screen.

   

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   Scroll to the right to locate the Control Panel

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   Click "Control Panel" to open it.

   

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   In the Control Panel, click "Appearance and Personalization"

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   Click "Display"

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   If using a stationary personal computer, a slider will be available. In our case, we're using a laptop computer, so the slider is not available for this computer setup. We can still choose the scaling level of all items on the screen.

   

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   Click the white box next to "Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays"

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   Once there is a checkmark in that box, we can "Change the size of all items"

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   We can select "Medium" and then click "Apply" in the bottom right corner.

   

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   Alternatively, click "Custom sizing options"

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   Let's do that. It opens the "Custom sizing options" window. In our example, it's set to "125%" because we set it to "Medium" in the previous window. We can increase this.

   

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    Click the down arrow to open the dropdown menu for more options

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    Select the percentage desired. For example, we will select "200%".

    

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    Preview the display text and if satisfied, click "OK"

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    Now we have a custom option called "Extra Large - 200%"

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    To apply these changes, simply click "Apply".

    

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    The computer will warn, "You must sign out of your computer to apply these changes"

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    If we sign out and sign in again, then the displayed items size will be changed. In our case, we are not going to sign out right now.

    

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    Let's change it to a smaller size

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    We will click "Smaller - 100% (default)".

    

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    Then click "Apply"

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    We get a warning again. We will click "Sign out later".

    

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    Close the window by clicking the "X" in the top right corner

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    This concludes our tutorial on how to change the size of displayed items on Windows 8 computers

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