Hi Basj.  Yes, I've tried that setting.  That's the setting that can make icons and their titles unreadable.  It also needs to be set back to 100% for some software or games.  It can be a real hassle when you open an application and wait for it to go through all of its gyrations (like loading plugins, going through multiple loading splash screens, and so forth), only to see that you forgot to set that parameter back to 100%.  Or up to 125%.  Correcting it can sometimes require that you stop and restart a program.

And this is why I'm asking about Windowblinds, because I think I read that Windowblinds will allow per-app settings, and not just force you only into a system-wide configuration.

Edit:  for some reason, the forum software didn't quote your post.  I don't know why.

That is strange, from what I know the setting never make "icons and their title unreadable" sometimes it does come out disoriented, but just restart Explorer.exe would resolve the issue right away.

As for your question on Windowblinds, I don't think you can do selective text changing for specific application.

Thank you,

Basj,
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Yes, user can have different skin applied to different application, but, I don't think you can set specific application with specific text size.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Not sure if Windowblinds can change all system fonts. Some might be hard coded by Windows. It best if you do the 30 days trial on Windowblinds and see if it can help you.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Oh wow, if I can do this it might just help me get to an 80% solution.  I've been dealing with these issues since about 2004, so an 80% solution would not be a 20% failure.

I will try your suggestion and will come back here with my results.

Okay, I have a status.

I went ahead and restarted my old subscription for Object Desktop, then I downloaded and installed OD.  Then I grabbed the new versions of Fences, Windowblinds, and Start 11.  Yeah, for this machine I still like the old start menu motif and layout.

With Windowblinds installed, I looked and looked, but couldn't find anything that would increase the text sizes. 

However!  I may have stumbled upon something helpful.

By poking and poking and poking around, I came upon a new setting for text size.  Well, it's new to me: 

Windows Settings/Accessibility/Text Size <-- This is a slider.  When I found it, it was set to 157%, but the font sizes were very small for that to be correct on my system.  So I grabbed the slider and moved it (yes) smaller...down to 150%.  And guess what, the font sizes GOT BIGGER in several places, such as my Firefox tabs (the text on the tabs themselves, not necessarily the text on the pages represented by the tabs), a couple of open Windows File Explorer instances, plus an XYPlorer instance that I had also had open.  And the text showing up on my Windows settings dialog box too.

I opened Affinity Photo 2 and went into the help dialog, which I know is too small from before.  No improvement there, so this is still a struggle.

It's unfortunate that Windowblinds doesn't let me change any UI font sizes, but there seems to be SOME improvement from the accessibility change I made.  I'll need to use it for some days to see if it really will be workable.  And at least in Affinity Photo, it doesn't help at all. 

Other issues (and maybe more) remain. 

1.  When using Firefox to access a YouTube live-stream, there's an ad that pushes the chat window too low in the browser window to be able to type freely without having to zoom-out that window to be able to read the content of the chat.  And the amount of zoom-out that's needed is so much that it will make the chat hard to read. So no improvement here either.

I have in the past used Adblock Pro to knock out that ad and make the chat function easier to use with a larger text size, but Google likes to keep hitting me with warnings about how adblockers violate their terms of service.

2.  The text beneath my icons as they appear in Fences, now underlap the icon below.  It's minor, but still annoying. 

3.  I can't find either skin file (.uis and .sss) anywhere, so I don't know how I could make that adjustment noted above by Gaspershooters.  I'll keep looking.

So the TLDR is that I have some minor improvement, but more work is needed.

If it's one windowblind skin in particular you are trying to modify, give me a link to it (preferably) if you can or the name and creator and I'll try to see if I can figure out what you are looking for.

Just remembered since Win10 and upwards,Windowblinds cannot 100% take over all GUI,so there is compromise have to make. 

I saw some very creative and interesting skins, and some stunning looking wallpapers too.  But once I've rebooted and start getting to work, Is end up with dozens of open windows and very little of my desktops showing.  So I'm not really trying to change the world with a menagerie of colors and shapes at this time.

I'm more interested in skins with slightly larger buttons and other elements, even if the cursor-targets are the same size as all the other themes.  So any of these would work.

• Default Theme
• Diamond
• Win8

But really, I'm not too proud.  I'd use a "My Little Pony" or "Calico Cat" theme if it allowed me to get into my "zone".   

Edit:  Or maybe show me how to do it.  40+ years in IT, plus I have been paper-trained, so I'm pretty sure I can still learn new tricks!

I mostly altered fonts's size with text editor since I am too lazy to look around with SkinStudio. Of course,there is trial and error since I blindly done that without knowing proper area to change. Therefore there is an instance that one skin of menu became very bulky to read. But from I understand that's exactly what you need.