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How to Configure 4K displays with Windows 7

I recently bought a 4K display for editing images and 4K video. Everything looks great except for two problems.

1 - Even with the 150% text scaling, a lot of applications look either too small or the correct size but upscaled and fuzzy.

2 - I have my old DVi display set up as my second display but I don't want that to have the 150% text scaling because

now everything on that looks too big.

Is there a way to apply different text scaling to each display output just like you can set different resolutions? It seems daft

to force both screens to have the same attributes when they have completely different resolutions.

If I get a second graphics card for the old display, would I still see the same problem if I switch on the 150% text magnification

on the 4k displays card? It seems like this setting is global.

Thanks in advance.

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Hello,

Thank you for posting your question on Microsoft community forum.

Windows allows you to use scaling to increase the size of text and other items on the screen. When you use scaling in this way, Windows magnifies the size of text and UI(User Interface) elements to the scale you choose. Each account on a computer has a separate setting for scaling.

I would suggest you to try using steps provided in this article and check if it helps.

Refer:
Optimize Display Scaling and Fix Scaling Issues on Windows 7
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff629368.aspx

Also see:
Getting the best display on your monitor
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/getting-best-display-monitor#getting-best-display-monitor=windows-7

I hope this information helps.

Please do let us know if you need any further assistance.

Thank you

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