Windows 10: How do you change the UI font settings on all windows so they're larger?

I have visibility issues, and never had a problem with using a laptop to do my work until I got one with Windows 11 installed. Now, the text on all the Windows UIs are way too small for me to read properly, and there doesn't seem to be a way to fix this. Display only changes the fonts of program UIs and not the Windows one. IE: my Chrome browser's font can be changed but the tab fonts won't change. Worst of all, the UI in my accounting programs uses the windows settings, and are so tiny I have to be at least a foot away from my screen and squinting to see anything. I'm a freelance bookkeeper,

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Unable to Change Font/Icon size from Setting app in Windows 10

Old title: Change Font/Icon size

Windows 10 takes care of this issue by supporting per-display DPI scaling to address. By default, Windows 8.1 will choose the optimum DPI scaling value for each display based on the value
chosen for overall scaling in the control panel.

You can change Modern UI text size by following the steps provided below.

• Press Windows key
• Click on Settings.
• Click on System.
• Click on Display.
• Now change the font size according to your choice.

When I attempt to follow these directions, the slider bar to make the font larger is at the far left. I can drag it to the right but as soon as I drop it, it bounces back to the left and therefore does NOT change the font size.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Susan Z

 

Unable to Change Font/Icon size from Setting app in Windows 10

Hi,

The previous dpi scaling on the control panel, do not exist anymore. I can´t adjust nothing.

I´m with the win10 build 16176 and don´t appear same way. Microsoft discontinuous that option and keep just only for adjust in the Modern UI Settings, Why?

It´s do not help. Miss you windows 7 in this case was perfect7.

 

Outlook Mail- How to Change to larger fonts.

Hello,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I understand that the fonts in Mail App are too small for you to read and you want to change the font size to larger than what it is now. We will help you.

This option for changing the fonts and icon size is not applicable for all the applications, but still you may follow the below steps and check if it helps you.

Check resizing the text and icons by dragging the scale of resize options.

• Press Windows + I keys, Select System.
• Select Display. Select Advance Display setting.
• Select Advance sizing to texts and other items.
• Under Change size of other items, Select Set a custom scaling level (not recommended).
• Set it to 100% and drag the Scale level to set the required size
  between 100% to 125%.
• Select Apply. Sign out and sign in to the account and check.

Keep us posted if the issue is resolved. We are glad to help you.