I spend my days looking at high resolution monitors; 1600x1200 at work
and 1920x1200 at home.
One suggestion I read for using high
resolutions, is to bump up the DPI Setting in display properties from
96 to 120dpi. This seemed like a good idea until I tried it.
All
the title bars become too large and some applications can't cope with
non-standard dpi settings. I see enough bad formatting on the
web. I don't need it on my desktop too, so I changed the setting
back. Unfortunately the window captions were still the wrong
size. I fixed this by going to Display Properties ->
Appearance -> Advanced and playing with the title bar settings until
things appeared normal.
This would seem to end this chapter in
my battle with Windows(tm) except that I earn my living using two
Integrated Development Environments: Visual FoxPro and Visual
Studio. Both IDEs make use of sub-windows with half-height
captions. After my DPI Setting experiment, these captions were
twice as tall as they should be with complementary giant, blocky icons.
:-P
I have put up with this situation for months, until
today. Today I found my limit in tolerating ugly displays and set
about correcting the issue. Unfortuanately, Google did not
provide me any leads. I find it unlikely that nobody else has had
this problem. Given my state of mind, I perceviered.
I
set about searching the registry for vaious keywords. I
eventually found the WindowMetrics key under Users\.Default. I
exported that key, edited the path, and imported it into the equivalent
key in the CurrentUser node. After a quick logoff/logon to reload
the registry, Bob's your uncle!
The attached file should serve
to correct this situation for any other users with this
affliciton. Change the extention from .reg.txt to .reg,
double-click, select OK, and you'll be golden.
++Alan
WindowMetrics.reg.txt (4.4 KB)