Windows 10: SET SCALING TO 110% GETS SCREWED UP BY WINDOWS 10

SET SCALING TO 110% ... after an update or other nefarious activity by windows 10 I see windows opening wrong. When I check scaling I find that windows 10 has reset my custom display to 175%.

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Notification area is broken under 110% scaling. Any way to fix it?

The problem is apparently caused by glitchy calculations for "irregular" scaling values' like 110%. It is not surprising that 125% scaling works fine. I have 200% scaling on my ThinkPad and it also woks fine.

But for my desktop %125 is too much. I need %110, just like I had in Windows 7.

You have a lot of custom toolbars, which is why locking/unlocking the taskbar make a difference for you. In the default setup (no extra toolbars) locking/unlocking does nothing in Windows 10. I wish I could unlock the bar and manually increase the size of notification area a little bit, but alas it is not possible.

And, of course, no, I'm not hitting any "exit options", as is clearly demonstrated by the pictures I posted. The invisible notification icon can be made to reappear by rearranging other icons.

You didn't see them because they are not there. The scaling value is not a fixed list, as you seem to suggest. The scaling value is freely specifiable by the user. You are supposed to type it in. You can type in any value: 123%, %99 or 136% if you so desire. The "125%, 150%, 175%" list that you see there is just a suggestion.

No, the icon that disappears is not listed as "hidden" there. As I said above, it is an obvious GUI-level drawing bug.

 

Notification area is broken under 110% scaling. Any way to fix it?


I have two screens here first showing things at the default 100% scaling and then the change to 125% without any problem once you log out of the user account you are in be it the admin or another and whether or not signed into an MS account or the local admin in working order. First at the 100% default.





Then another grabbed with a fast change to the 125% setting.





And then went up and unlocked the Task bar to try and successfully rearranging the larger number of items here without any of them disappearing at all. When moving things around make sure you don't end up right clicking on any of them and hitting the exit option in the process which will then make them disappear and why you may have to manually start them up again if they are not set to start automatically with Windows.

I didn't find any 110% option only the 125%, 150%, 175%, etc. in that order when going to use the Custom Scaling options. Here's a look at the first arrangement of icons in the System Tray Notification area.





Now I will take a moment to move things around and end up with ...





Which tends to suggest you might be seeing a registry issue of some type. You may want to right click on the Task bar to bring up the Taskbar and Start properties screen to see which items are set to be hidden to try and refresh things by unhiding and then hiding them again.

 

Disable display scaling on high DPI settings. globe switch

Hi Lasse,

Thank you for being a part of Windows 10.

I appreciate you for providing details about the issue and your effort towards resolving it.

I suggest you to follow the below steps to customize the display scaling and check if it helps.

• Right click on the open area on the Desktop.
• Select the Graphics properties.
• Click on Display option.
• Click on the General settings from the left pane.
• Under the Scaling click on the Customize
  Aspect Ratio and try to customize.
• Click on Apply.
• If you want to reset the display scaling settings then follow till the above 4th step.
• Then under the Scaling click on the Maintain Display Scaling.
• Click on Apply.

Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.