Product to resize apps on 3840 x 2160 Windows 10 x64 display

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Does Stardock have a product where it is possible to resize/normalize applications (Win 32/64, Java) on Windows 10 x64 with a 3840 x 2160 display?

Many (older) applications are unreadable and unusable on UHD displays, Windows does not have a good solution to zoom applications x4 to make them usable.

If not is there any other software available that does this?

Thanks in advance.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You dont need an App for that Windows can do this already...

For that you adjust system wide scaling in Windows.
Here is how you do it:

Hold and press Windowsbutton + Q, in the searchfield type "Display"
In windows 8.x there will be slider to adjust the size of all items, this will scale "most" apps buttons aswell as text.

In windows10 you will be peresented with bunch of text including some shortcuts to make these adjustments, be it permanently or temporary.
click on the links in the text block to navigate.

Windows8.x will have a small checkbox called let me choose scaling level or something like that
click it and you will be able to adjust Text size if needed.

This option can be found in windows10 under the above mentioned textblock.


For old programs or programs that dont scale well or become unusable with internal windows scaling
Go to the programs executable location
rightclick the program or the shortcut select "properties"
under the tab/rider compatability check "disable display scaling... and then apply

Or simply turn down that resolution 

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I know and tried those Windows settings (including manifest files, which helps for some apps), apart from setting the entire resolution to a lower value, which would render the UHD display act like a HD display (not really a solution), Windows is not capable to scale all applications in all cases. Sometimes the fonts are huge with tiny controls and non-sizable windows. Windows does not to do pixel by pixel scaling, so everything is resized accordingly. It just doesn't work for some applications and new versions of those apps are not likely to come soon. So a scaling solution that can scale correctly would help a lot. This is a well known problem, but I have not found a solution yet that works in all cases.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Stardock does not have a product that addresses your issue at this time.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks, perhaps in future, since UHD screens are becoming more standard.

A virutal machine as a solution will work, but is somewhat overkill.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

The problem seems to be the apps you are using are incorrectly reporting themselves as high dpi aware when they are not.

If the apps are coded properly then if they are dpi aware they will scale and look sharp and those which are not dpi aware will scale but have a blur to them (200% dpi will make them non blurred but just lower quality as it will do a pixel copy vs resize)