New OS give me a break!

Who's the troll?

 

OK, I am. "I am sorry I came to your notebook forum and started a fight" "come on Forest let's go".

 

Personally I find the reduced vista customization (compared to xp) a bit annoying.. I don't mind user-friendly GUI, but that does not mean baby-friendly If an option is a bit more important in vista it is usually burried somewhere deep, apparently part of its increased security? only in this case from users.. And really, the standard stuck explorer's windows are bad idea. My laptop's screen is tiny, and I'd like to be able to see more information on it rather than bar 'organize', and 'name/size etc' which are just glued there to the window with no chance to get rid of them.

Little things, but annoying. And it is not a matter of getting used to, I think, with its mandatory options Vista is just a bit too intrusive, of course unless one can get used to intrusions...

 

I would think that INCREASING the DPI (dots per inch) would make everything smaller, since the dots themselves would be smaller. For instance, a square that is 100 pixels wide, displayed at 100 DPI would be 1 inch per side.

If you then INCREASE the DPI of the screen to 200, then that same square now shrinks to only 1/2 inch, because 100 pixels now only reach 1/2 inch. Doubling the DPI just made everythign half-sized (smaller)

So, I think you have it backwards. Decreasing DPI would make your fonts bigger, and easier to read.

If you increased your DPI to 1 million, everything currently on your screen would shrink to a tiny dot, not get bigger.

 

Increasing the DPI through Windows makes fonts and windows larger. Decreasing the DPI makes fonts and windows smaller. Try it on your computer. You're using Vista, so you can't decrease it, but you can experiment with increasing it.

 

It took me a minute to understand, but if you are correct and I think you are because, trust me you care about this. It is stated some what imprecisely, kind of a are you looking up or are you looking down. Decreasing DPI in a absolute shrinks, but in Windows it allows more to be displayed. It does however lower the resolution of what you are looking at (not the screen! No fights) So it is a more of a semantics issues. Lowering DPI displayed is different than reducing DPI.

 

Not you. Stay boxer.

 

the OS assumes that the end user will be scaling the DPI to match their monitor. suppose your display has a 130 DPI - since windows was designed with 96 DPI in mind, everything represented on your screen will be much smaller than designed. setting the DPI to match your resolution density will then scale everything higher to compensate for this.