I have an HP Spectre x360 15 laptop. Its native resolution is 3840×2160. But I don’t need or particularly want that much resolution, especially since I have an external 1920×1080 monitor that I use as my main display when in the office. I tried running the internal display at its full resolution, but that was a mess with different resolutions on internal & external. So for 4+ years I’ve run the internal display at 1920×1080, with the same scale on both monitors.
I just had a week of vacation and took the laptop with me. When I got back, I noticed my fonts were kind of messed up. Many (not all) apps are displaying (on both screens) at about 150% of the normal font size. In Windows File Explorer, the fonts are large enough that lines start to overlap. (In other words the fonts are larger, but the line spacing didn’t change to match!?) In Chrome I have to resize to about 70% (probably 66.7%) to get the visual result I used to get at 100%, but that only affects window contents, not the tabs &etc. Apps just aren’t displaying right because the fonts are too big or whatever.
I checked Display Settings, and everything is correct: the Scale and Layout setting on both displays is 100% and the resolution is 1920×1080, as it should be, as it was when it worked right. I can’t change the scale size to 70% because it only supports 100%, 125%, 150%, and 175%.
What would cause this, and how do I fix?
Windows 10 Pro, version 21H1, build 19043.2130.
