Why is the font on my computer so big
Windows 7 How To: Increase or Decrease your Font Size
hey welcome to the computer TV tutorial
series on some of the Windows 7 features
you may not know about including the one
we're going to show you right now which
is how to increase or decrease the font
size in Windows 7
now as screens get to be higher in
higher resolutions those of you that
don't necessarily have great eyesight or
don't necessarily like to squint at
small text on a screen may not know that
you can actually increase the font size
system-wide so it's not as difficult to
read the text of course inversely you
can also reduce that font size as well
and we'll show you how to do it now the
first step when you are going to be
increasing or decreasing the font size
in Windows 7 is to click on your Start
menu and click on control panel over
there on the right hand side then you're
going to click on appearance and
personalization and from there click on
the display menu item then you're going
to see to actually you'll see three
different options for your font size you
can either select 100% 125 or 150
percent from right here or you can set a
custom size as you would have in Vista
or Windows XP as well so go ahead and
set your new size click on apply
and then it will prompt you to log off
and then log on to your computer you
reboot your computer and you will
actually have a larger font size
throughout your computer system wide so
you don't have to squint every time you
sit down at your PC that is how you
increase or decrease the font size on
your Windows 7 computer
