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I've been struggling to keep using the text scaling on windows 8 with my ultrabook and I want to know if the DPI scaling on Windows 10 is any better and if the current build is stable enough to be used for a school computer.  All of my school work is done through Google Drive so data loss isn't a problem at the moment.  I also want to try out the new features.  Are you guys using windows 10?  is it working? 

I would have finished that but i got distra-oh my god is that Linus!?

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I've been struggling to keep using the text scaling on windows 8 with my ultrabook and I want to know if the DPI scaling on Windows 10 is any better and if the current build is stable enough to be used for a school computer.  All of my school work is done through Google Drive so data loss isn't a problem at the moment.  I also want to try out the new features.  Are you guys using windows 10?  is it working? 

The tech preview ended not to long ago so maybe better to wait

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I've been struggling to keep using the text scaling on windows 8 with my ultrabook and I want to know if the DPI scaling on Windows 10 is any better and if the current build is stable enough to be used for a school computer.  All of my school work is done through Google Drive so data loss isn't a problem at the moment.  I also want to try out the new features.  Are you guys using windows 10?  is it working?

Windows 10 high-DPI support for non-supported applications is currently the same as in Windows 8. HOWEVER, Device Manager and Disk Manager reveals a new implementation, but I don't know if they hack it specifically for these programs as a quick solutions, or it is in development and will be reveals once ready and have Windows apply it for all applications. So we have to wait and see.

The new implementation seams to mix things between injecting code to make text bigger, scaling icons, but apply Windows 8 scaling on images and icons. It makes the application mostly sharp and readable. Not perfect but very good compared to before, but not perfect.

Again, we have to see if this is some hack for these 2 programs exclusively or something in the works.

Windows 10 is sadly not ready for daily usage. Build 10049 is usable, but that is on the fast ring. But now fast ring at 10061, and while it improves tablet mode feature of Windows 10 (which was incomplete before), the start menu crashes if you run any Win32 applications (those are your standard desktop application), so you have to forget using it under Build 10061 unless you lunch only universal applications, which, the one specifically of build 10061 are impressive compared to Windows 8 apps (which older builds of Windows 10 had).

But not for you to get too excited, so far we are talking about the Mail and Calendar app only. Calculator, Alarm, and recording got improved as well, and is available in previous Windows 10 builds, but I don't think they are very exiting. Regardless, it does show the much improve Universal App framework over Windows 8. Office touch (Word, Excel PowerPoint), being exclusive to Windows 10 (it is the same app on Android and iOS, so by exclusive, I mean Windows 8 wont' get it), and the fact that it was never release under Windows 8, shows that Windows 8 Modern UI apps were limited preventing complex applications to be made, but now it is no longer the truth which is awesome. The fact that you can run all Universal Apps in windows like normal desktop applications, will make them quiet interesting for laptop users as well. It must be noted that 10049 is no longer available, as you have 10061

If you are on the Slow ring, you are on Build 10041, which has other set of issues, which doesn't make it enjoyable.

So all to say, that Windows 10, which I am using as main OS (the big reason is for software development and testing purposes), current technical previews, has a lot of cool stuff, lots of nice stuff, but lots of bugs and incompleteness that really affects your day-to-day usage.

Rumors says that a Consumer Preview of Windows 10 will be released at BUILD event, that is April 29th and May 1st. Something to watch out for.

If not, then expect a new build by then that will fix these big front-end user experience bugs by then, and have a usable build, and more fun to play with and discover.

Now what you can do with Windows 8.

-> Use IE11. It is sadly, the only web browser that properly and fully support high-DPI until Spartan comes out for Windows 10, or Mozilla and Google wakes up.

-> Use Office 2013. As a student you have Office 365 subscription for free. Meaning you have the latest version of Office, full suit, for you to play with, as well as 1TB of OneDrive storage. All free. Simply enter your university or college name with Office 365, I am sure your school made a news article about it and how to get it. If they suck, then Microsoft manages it, and you can get it here: https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education

-> All Microsoft software are high-DPI supported if they are not too old.

-> Make sure your software are up to date. More and more software are high-DPI friendly. For example: FileZilla, last version of PhotoShop, Sibelius, VLC (if I am not mistaken), Adobe Illustrator, and potentially more that I don't know about.

There is a different mode for the DPI you can apply under Windows 8 which you can try to make more apps scale better: Right-click on your desktop, Select Properties, and then click on "Make text and other items larger or smaller", and now check the box "Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays". Set your high-DPI level, Click on Apply, and restart your system. See if it helps.

You can also add programs to not have any high-DPI scaling so they appear correctly (but will be small). Simply right-click on the properties of the program executable or shortcut, and select "Properties", then go under the "Compatibility" tab, and check the box "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings". Click on OK, and start or restart the program.

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Windows 10 high-DPI support for non-supported applications is currently the same as in Windows 8. HOWEVER, Device Manager and Disk Manager reveals a new implementation, but I don't know if they hack it specifically for these programs as a quick solutions, or it is in development and will be reveals once ready and have Windows apply it for all applications. So we have to wait and see.

The new implementation seams to mix things between injecting code to make text bigger, scaling icons, but apply Windows 8 scaling on images and icons. It makes the application mostly sharp and readable. Not perfect but very good compared to before, but not perfect.

Again, we have to see if this is some hack for these 2 programs exclusively or something in the works.

Windows 10 is sadly not ready for daily usage. Build 10049 is usable, but that is on the fast ring. But now fast ring at 10061, and while it improves tablet mode feature of Windows 10 (which was incomplete before), the start menu crashes if you run any Win32 applications (those are your standard desktop application), so you have to forget using it under Build 10061 unless you lunch only universal applications, which, the one specifically of build 10061 are impressive compared to Windows 8 apps (which older builds of Windows 10 had).

But not for you to get too excited, so far we are talking about the Mail and Calendar app only. Calculator, Alarm, and recording got improved as well, and is available in previous Windows 10 builds, but I don't think they are very exiting. Regardless, it does show the much improve Universal App framework over Windows 8. Office touch (Word, Excel PowerPoint), being exclusive to Windows 10 (it is the same app on Android and iOS, so by exclusive, I mean Windows 8 wont' get it), and the fact that it was never release under Windows 8, shows that Windows 8 Modern UI apps were limited preventing complex applications to be made, but now it is no longer the truth which is awesome. The fact that you can run all Universal Apps in windows like normal desktop applications, will make them quiet interesting for laptop users as well. It must be noted that 10049 is no longer available, as you have 10061

If you are on the Slow ring, you are on Build 10041, which has other set of issues, which doesn't make it enjoyable.

So all to say, that Windows 10, which I am using as main OS (the big reason is for software development and testing purposes), current technical previews, has a lot of cool stuff, lots of nice stuff, but lots of bugs and incompleteness that really affects your day-to-day usage.

Rumors says that a Consumer Preview of Windows 10 will be released at BUILD event, that is April 29th and May 1st. Something to watch out for.

If not, then expect a new build by then that will fix these big front-end user experience bugs by then, and have a usable build, and more fun to play with and discover.

Now what you can do with Windows 8.

-> Use IE11. It is sadly, the only web browser that properly and fully support high-DPI until Spartan comes out for Windows 10, or Mozilla and Google wakes up.

-> Use Office 2013. As a student you have Office 365 subscription for free. Meaning you have the latest version of Office, full suit, for you to play with, as well as 1TB of OneDrive storage. All free. Simply enter your university or college name with Office 365, I am sure your school made a news article about it and how to get it. If they suck, then Microsoft manages it, and you can get it here: https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education

-> All Microsoft software are high-DPI supported if they are not too old.

-> Make sure your software are up to date. More and more software are high-DPI friendly. For example: FileZilla, last version of PhotoShop, Sibelius, VLC (if I am not mistaken), Adobe Illustrator, and potentially more that I don't know about.

There is a different mode for the DPI you can apply under Windows 8 which you can try to make more apps scale better: Right-click on your desktop, Select Properties, and then click on "Make text and other items larger or smaller", and now check the box "Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays". Set your high-DPI level, Click on Apply, and restart your system. See if it helps.

You can also add programs to not have any high-DPI scaling so they appear correctly (but will be small). Simply right-click on the properties of the program executable or shortcut, and select "Properties", then go under the "Compatibility" tab, and check the box "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings". Click on OK, and start or restart the program.

thank you for the advice, I didn't know that office 365 was free for students, what I've done as a temporary solution is change my resolution to 2048x1152 which is usable at 100% scaling (for me at least) and I am using office 2013 and keeping everything I use up to date (photoshop was my main problem but the resolution seems to be working)

I would have finished that but i got distra-oh my god is that Linus!?

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