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A day ago, I suddenly started noticing blurry text & images on my screen, as well as weird scaling issues.

First of all, here is how my status bar and windows look like:

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(notice the battery icon, in particular).

All the texts now look different and blurry: in my browser, in terminals, everywhere.

In the browser, websites look different, smaller. To be sure this wasn't just an illusion, I measured a columned layout. Even though the browser scaling is set to 100%, when developer tools report a 1200px wide column, if I take a screenshot and paste it in Photoshop, I can see that it's actually only 970px wide.

I had a look at this question: Windows 10 Font blurry 125% scaling but the suggestions didn't really help:

  • setting a custom scaling level of 125% does seem to fix the browser scaling issue, but it scales the status bar and other things to a scale that I was not used to (so this was not my previous value, for sure); also, why would I need to set 125% to make a pixel be 1px wide?

  • checking "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" on every application is really not a solution

What could be the cause of this sudden change and how to revert it?

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  • http://windows10_dpi_blurry_fix.xpexplorer.com/ – magicandre1981 Jul 15 '16 at 15:14
  • @magicandre1981 I've mentioned this trick in my question, but I should *not* have to do this for every single application, as this was working perfectly before? – BenMorel Jul 15 '16 at 20:14
  • Is your display resolution set to the panel's native resolution? – Wes Sayeed Aug 08 '16 at 23:18
  • @Benjamin Below the per application fix there is also a general tool that tweaks the DPI scaling method for everything. – HTNW Aug 09 '16 at 04:07
  • @WesSayeed It doesn't need to be.. those are screen shots. They're at the same size as they are taken. It's a scaling problem. – var firstName Aug 10 '16 at 14:17
  • @HTNW Are you talking about Display Settings > Change the size of text, apps, and other items? – BenMorel Aug 10 '16 at 20:08
  • Can you add a bit more information, such as if the monitor is a built in monitor or if its a stand alone monitor. If its a stand alone monitor, specify how it is connected to your computer. – Frostalf Aug 10 '16 at 21:01
  • @Benjamin I was referring to the link magicandre posted and is in your question. Along with the per app fix there is an actual program that runs the fix for you underneath. – HTNW Aug 10 '16 at 23:09
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    Could the display resolution have changed to some non-standard value? It isn't exactly the same but my font sizes(for window labels, text, buttons etc.) have gotten "randomized" after updates twice, no idea why. – SilentVoid Aug 12 '16 at 04:15

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The issues are mostly solved now, after a cumulative update of Windows 10 released around 10 or 12 August 2016.

Everything looks perfect on my laptop's 3K display, and although I still feel like the text is sometimes slightly blurry on my external Full HD screen, it is much more crisp and readable, and the icons now look all right!

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