The menus in Photoshop and any text is so small to be unreadable on my new laptop.

[Brian_Mennis]

CC5: I have just bought a new laptop which has a dislay that is native at 3200x1800. InDesign and Adobe PDF are usable at that resolution. But the menus in Photoshop and any text is so small to be unreadable. Is there a way to enlarge the menus and other stull that is on the desktop. I have fiddled with the settings in windows (WIN10 needless to say, maybe it is that that is a problem), but I get nowhere.

Brian Mennis

[kglad · Accepted solution]

click edit>preferences>interface>ui scaling>200% (or increase the ui font size).

[Inquisitive55]

That did not work.   The print is so tiny that it is difficult to read with a magnifying glass!

There is  no "scaling" on CS5.

[kglad]

click the screenshot you posted.  is that the size you're seeing and with which you're having difficulty?

[Inquisitive55]

If you have a big screen, you might see it okay.  I have a 16" laptop and it is so tiny I cannot read it.

[kglad]

is your computer screen scaled to 100% 

https://www.itechtics.com/change-screen-resolution/#:~:text=How%20to%20Change%20the%20Resolution%20o....

[Inquisitive55]

Yes, and I tried to scale it but it didn't help.  And then today Windows did an update that messed up menu texts even more!  It's not even 1/4 inch high and I CANNOT read it.  It's like they destroyed my computer work!  Microsoft apparently wants to take over with all the crazy stuff they just installed.  I am so upset!   I have to use a magnifying glass to see the menus and it really hinders.

[kglad]

what happens if you go back to that display panel and increase the scale of text?

[Inquisitive55]

I've done all that.  Doesn't work.

[kglad]

just to make sure, have you restarted your computer?

if that's ni help can you restore your computer to an earlier set point?