Living with high resolution screen: the small-as-ants curse – DPI setting and App Manifest file

Living with high resolution screen: the small-as-ants curse – DPI setting and App Manifest file

Nowadays, there are larger-than-HD laptop screens available. There's the Lenovo Y50 3840x2160, The Yoga 2 Pro 3200x1800, and the ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2560x1440. For my case, I got the ThinkPad W540 2880x1620 IPS display. So at first, we must all be thinking, bigger resolution, bigger screen estate... I can now open Visual Studio side-by-side with Adobe Photoshop (strange combination, yes). 1. The DPI Setting Alas, you will be disappointed. Windows 8 will automatically choose a recommended DPI setting, so when you switched on your laptop and booted into that nice Windows 8 Desktop, what you will see is... 1440x810, see...