Thursday, January 21, 2010

Making the Logon Text Bigger

If you use a high-DPI setting to enlarge text while you're logged on, you might be disappointed to see that your setting doesn't apply to the logon screen. To remedy that situation, follow these steps:

In the Start menu search box, type regedit and press Enter to open Registry Editor.

In Registry Editor, navigate to the HKU\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop key.

If a DWORD value named LogPixels does not exist, create one.

Double-click the LogPixels value. Be sure that Base is set to Decimal, and then set the value to the desired resolution in dots per inch. The default setting is 96 DPI; larger values increase the text size. For example, setting the value to 120 increases the size by 25 percent. (96 times 1.25 is 120.)

Log off to see the changes. The first time each user logs on after making this change, Windows applies the new DPI setting to the user's desktop as well as the logon screen. Users who want to change to a different text size can do so by visiting Display in Control Panel. For details, see "Making Text Easier to Read" on page 143.

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