Reducing DPI below 100% to get more character space

I'm running Vista Ultimate and I want to get more characters on the screen
by reducing the DPI which is currently 96. I go into the DPI settings on
Vista and I'm able to increase the DPI number for bigger characters, but
unable to reduce it for smaller characters. I *do* recall having acheived
this in the past (perhaps I was using Windows XP Pro at the time). Is there
some way to reduce the number of DPI below 96 (which is 100%)? TIA David

David F;498667 Wrote:
> I'm running Vista Ultimate and I want to get more characters on the
> screen
> by reducing the DPI which is currently 96. I go into the DPI settings
> on
> Vista and I'm able to increase the DPI number for bigger characters,
> but
> unable to reduce it for smaller characters. I *do* recall having
> acheived
> this in the past (perhaps I was using Windows XP Pro at the time). Is
> there
> some way to reduce the number of DPI below 96 (which is 100%)? TIA
> David

Hi David,

This tutorial will show you how. Just do a "Custom DPI" in step 4C.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/84...i-scaling.html

Shawn


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I had done the "custom" DPI but it would not allow me to go below the
default 96 (e.g. 80) by either typing in e.g. 90% or by moving the ruller to
the left. How do I do this? I also tried the XP scaling checkmark and
still I could not do it.


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>
> David F;498667 Wrote:
>> I'm running Vista Ultimate and I want to get more characters on the
>> screen
>> by reducing the DPI which is currently 96. I go into the DPI settings
>> on
>> Vista and I'm able to increase the DPI number for bigger characters,
>> but
>> unable to reduce it for smaller characters. I *do* recall having
>> acheived
>> this in the past (perhaps I was using Windows XP Pro at the time). Is
>> there
>> some way to reduce the number of DPI below 96 (which is 100%)? TIA
>> David
>
> Hi David,
>
> This tutorial will show you how. Just do a "Custom DPI" in step 4C.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/84...i-scaling.html
>
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> OM\")
> *Please post feedback to help others.*