x200 font size

i just bought a x200, works well. the only problem is that the fonts are too small and i am going blind!

how do i change the overall font size on this laptop? (i can do the IE etc) but is there a way to make everything a tad bigger here? i tried the right click on destkop-properties but nothing

thanks all

 

You need to adjust font dpi. What OS, because if you right click on the vista desktop and go to personalize you should see adjust font size on the left.

 

thanks

i am on xp

 

http://www.lawfirmsoftware.com/support/change_dpi_settings_xp.htm

DPI scaling isnt going to look that great in XP though...but I guess it might help. How bad are your eyes?

 

no kidding. let me try this. thanks so much

 

ok, tried it and it is big fonts! looks crappy on xp but will work for me

thank you for your help

 

Time to install Windows 7.

 

i rather die first lol

 

Windows 7 will have much better scaling. And the x200 will run just fine with Windows 7.

 

Unlike Vista, Windows 7 runs pretty doggone well (at least, the 64-bit RC version I'm playing with does). Of course, SP2 for Vista finally fixes a lot of my beefs, but Windows 7 fixes the rest of them. Starting with the beta, I've never seen this stable of a beta OS from Microsoft, nor one with driver support as good. And this is from someone who really disliked Vista's poor performance and lousy driver support on release (I'd run all of the betas and the RC during Vista's pre-release time as well).

There are a few minor gripes I have, but they're very minor --like the fact that I think Windows Photo Viewer should have scroll bars so that when you zoom, you can center in on the portion of the image you want. And there's a minor issue when working with shared printers, but I ended up finding a workaround. They're the kind of issues I think will be solved at product release. When my T400 arrives, I'm actually tempted to install the RC and run it full-time without XP.

 

A few questions:

1. Does changing dpi make the fonts blurred? Any other cons?

If no, good

If yes--

2. Is the visual effect of changing dpi the same as changing the font size in the browser, or in the word processor? (What I mean is: if answer to the above question is "yes, blurred", then would it be blurred also if instead of dpi you simply change default font size in your browser or your word processor?)

3. What about the effect of changing icon text size and others using the Display? would that also be blurred?

I have tried some of these but can't tell for sure...

 

seriously? good to know because you wouldnt see me touching Vista thats for sure.

 

In addition to much better text scaling, Vista has improved power management that will give you more than an hour more battery life than XP, with a 9-cell battery. On a 6-cell or a 4-cell, the difference would be smaller, but Vista would still pull ahead.

Really, much of the negatives of Vista have been resolved by SP1, and SP2 fixes even more bugs and small issues that drove people away from the initial release of it.

 

That was my worry ... the font size ... and if it's small on the X200 I wonder what the X200s is like ... I think an X61 was a good choice, am looking for the top spec in that one. Have good eye sight but get eye strain from prolonged hours a the computer

 

Listen to this gentleman! He speaks the truth!

I too was skeptical and prejudiced against Vista in the past. But Vista SP2 is humming along just fine on my current X61. What I love about Vista is that hitting ctrl-alt-del brings a swift and sure response, allowing me to get to task manager to shut down that pesky process holding my lappy up. Try doing that with XP and you're left cursing and swearing because it can sometimes take forever.

So, unless your machine is a weak netbook using atom processors and artificially limited RAM capacity, current laptops with sufficient RAM (2GB and above) and a decent processor (CD/C2D and above) - which is the majority of new laptops now - will be able to run Vista smoothly. Repeat after me: RAM is dirt cheap now!

Although I have not tried Win 7 yet, I hear nothing but good things about it. Plus it can run comfortably on obsolete hardware too.

Looking forward, Win 7 is the future and the way to go. We just need to be patient and wait for the ThinkPad release that integrates seamlessly with ThinkVantage utilities. That would be a good time to upgrade.