I moved to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 but the display at 2800x1800 looks too small in Windows 10. In Windows 8.1 the display was fine at 2800x1800. Also, before installing bootcamp drivers in Windows 10 the display was good(a little big and visible not too big, no back on top and bottom it was complete full screen clear display). How would I fix that?
Whether your eyes aren't sharp enough for the text on a website or the default settings on your Mac render words too small to read, you'll want to know how to make text bigger on macOS. Using a large-screen iMac or a Macbook on a stand: In both of these scenarios, the screen of the Mac usually sits a few inches further, making the default text size also harder to read. In Mac OS X, the easiest way to make everything bigger on your screen is to decrease the screen resolution. First, click on the Apple menu on the top left of your screen and select System Preferences. Click on the Displays icon and then make sure the Display tab is highlighted. There will be a list.
Laptop: MacBook pro retina 15-inch.
- Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET You don't have to make everything bigger -- you can change just the text size of title bars, menus, message boxes, palette titles, icons, and tooltips individually.
- I slid the text display slider all the way to the right to large, for text as large as possible (right click on desktop, choose 'screen resolution', and then 'make text and other items larger or smaller', and slide the slider all the way to large). All icons become slightly bigger.
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Can't this be related to your MacBooks high screen resolution. Try with zooming your display in Windows. Zooming will make everything on the screen larger and will hopefully make everything less small for you.
The setting is in the control panel and display/resolution settings.
Also, check out this answer from the Apple support forum that gives a more step by step instruction: Link
- Right click on the desk and choose 'Display settings'
- Click on the 'Advanced display settings' link
- Click on the 'Advanced sizing of text and other items' link
- Click on the 'set a custom scaling level' link in the 'Change size of items' paragraph
- Change to option in the drop down to 100%
- Log out and log back in
Windows 10 External Display
DempaDempaFrom https://discussions.apple.com/message/28738491#28738491:
Right click on the exe file the choose Properties. Go to the Compatibility tab and check the 'Disable display scaling on high DPI settings' box.
Then go to Settings->System->Advanced display settings->Then change the resolution to 1920 x 1200.
♦In response to Dempa's currently highest rated solution, I would like to add that 200% @ 2880x1800 looks perfect on my 15 inch Macbook Pro Retina, as far as desktop icons, sizes and crispness goes. It looks nice. Some apps/programmes though (Audodesk Inventor in my case), are still fuzzy around the icons (not untilising high res). 150% looks better for those aesthetically, but for ease-of-use, they are a bit smaller, but work-space is bigger, it's a compromise, I'll decide later, up to you really. It might be better for my cad software to have slightly smaller icons, more space, and that crisp look. At least this is a more exact adjustment than before, where it was either minuscule and sharp or big and fuzzy. 200% for me seems to be correct size and full resolution. Unfortunately not all apps are adaptable.
Also I highly recommend improving the crispness of text too, which goes well with retina. Text looks crisp again, including in web browsers. Right-click on desktop>display settings>advanced display settings>Clear type text
In the display settings, just switch off the custom layout, and choose 200%. Done