Start 10 text has shrunk

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Hi,

for whatever reason, the Start 10 menu text has shrunk, it is now suddenly really small in size. I am on a WQHD display, and am using a custom scaling on my desktop, but I haven't had any issues until tonight.

 

The only thing that I am guessing might have caused issues is that I upgraded my GPU drivers tonight. Nvidia GTX 970 - to driver version 368.69  WHQL

Am on Windows 10 Home 64bit, Nvidia GTX 970 GPU. Am running scaling on the desktop on A BenQ BL2420PT WQHD monitor.

 

Thanks for any help.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Update - I just did a reboot, and the text size is back to normal. It may have just been an issue with the graphics card driver update I did earlier, as it upgrades the driver without needing a reboot.

It may not be an ongoing issue, as rebooting seems to have restored everything to normal.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I have seen this happen several times too, running Windows 10 and Start10 on a MacBook Pro Retina (late 2013 edition, NVIDIA graphics). It happens occasionally when I put the machine into sleep and then resume.

I hadn't updated the graphics driver recently; just standby and resume. A reboot clears it up for me too.

I also have a separate Windows 10 installation in a Parallels VM and have not seen the problem there. But that could just be because I never put the VM on standby.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Could you post a screenshot showing what it looks like when it uses the small font.  Is your desktop font any smaller at the time too?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi Neil,

it has only happened the once for me, so I can't get a screenshot, though it happened when I upgraded my GPU card drivers, so if it happens next time, I will try.

FYI, the desktop fonts and pretty much everything else was unchanged. I'm guessing something needed resetting, as a reboot fixed the Start10 font issue for me and it hasn't happened since.

 

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Here's a screenshot of the menu from the last time it happened, along with one with the menu's normal appearance.

These are rather large because they are from a Retina display, and the normal text is also large because the display scaling is set to 250%.

Other apps and the Windows desktop were unaffected; they all looked normal.

I didn't look at the various Start10 submenus, but will do that if it happens again.

Start10 with shrunken font

 

Start10 with normal font

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

That is how mine looked as well. You might notice that the "All Programs" and "Shutdown" font size were unaffected or unchanged, but the rest of the menu fonts had shrunk. That is what happened to my Start10 menu, but perhaps under slightly different circumstances.

Thanks.

Justin

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

I just ran into another similar problem, but almost the opposite of the previous one. This time the All Programs and Shut Down text are very small, all other text is normal size, and the overall Start menu size is very small. This is with Start 10 1.11 on Windows 1607; the previous problem was on Windows 1511. It happened in the same situation where I'd resumed from Standby.

As before, note that this is on a MacBook Pro Retina, so while the menu text may look very large in this screenshot, it is correctly sized for the high-DPI display.