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    How to make icons look good on E1505's WSXGA screen?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by matneh, Apr 5, 2006.

  1. matneh

    matneh Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi folks,

    First thing I noticed when I received my E1505 was that the icons in the taskbar and the start menu were "jaggy". I am used to the icons being very crisp on my desktop and other laptop.

    Then I found the reason for this -- because the WSXGA screen has so many pixels (1680x1050) compared to the WXGA screen (1280x800), the default settings were scaled to have larger fonts (120 dpi instead of 96 dpi) and the icons were scaled to be 48 pixels instead of 32.

    A scale of x1.5 just isn't a perfect multiple of 2, so that's why the icons are jaggy. I changed the size of the icons back to 32 (Display Properties->Appearance->Advanced->Icon) and now the icons were crisp but *TINY*.

    Is there any way to get the icons to look good but not *TINY*?

    I tried 64 but that doesn't quite work. I worked out the math and 42 is actually the perfect scaling (WSXGA is 31.25% bigger in one dimension than WXGA), but something else seems to be wrong.
     
    matneh, Apr 5, 2006
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