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I searched a while for this, and never found an answer. They always said to use the Accessibility > Text Size. I found that if you go to System > Display > Scale & Layout, and adjust the scale it does in fact increase the font size in a much better way than the Accessibility option, including increasing the font size on the taskbar. Hope this helps someone!
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changing scale does make everything bigger but then you run into problems with other program screen size being too big and you can't access things like OK / Submit buttons. I don't know why Microsoft can't listen to people and make system fonts a decent size.
I recently had to reinstall Windows 11 (Yes the previous version was 11). Before the taskbar was fine and now the text is incredibly small.
I tried your suggestion but it had no effect. Neither has any other solution I've found, including changing the registry. Incredibly frustrating.
I'm running 2 1440P monitors.
I searched a while for this, and never found an answer. They always said to use the Accessibility > Text Size. I found that if you go to System > Display > Scale & Layout, and adjust the scale it does in fact increase the font size in a much better way than the Accessibility option, including increasing the font size on the taskbar. Hope this helps someone!
Thank you Roagie,
I've just install Affinity Photo 2.1.1 into my PC; all of my font size in task bar ( Win 11) and Affinity Photo turn to very small so that I can not read.
Lucky, I fixed the troubled following your guidance and every thing is fine now.
Thank you for your help
Son Nguyen
Very helpful. 90% of the solutions posted focus on Accessibility > Text Size, claiming that it will adjust BOTH. It doesn't. While this changes the text size in the Window (e.g., for shortcut icons) it DOES NOT change the text size in the task bar or Start Menu.
If you change the System > Display > Scale & Layout it changes BOTH icon labels AND taskbar. Select a size that gives you the desired Task Bar font size. THEN go back and change the Accessibility > Text Size to reduce the screen/icon font size to something more reasonable.
I had changed to 32-inch 4K displays and the default fonts were very tiny. This fixed the problem nicely.
I searched a while for this, and never found an answer. They always said to use the Accessibility > Text Size. I found that if you go to System > Display > Scale & Layout, and adjust the scale it does in fact increase the font size in a much better way than the Accessibility option, including increasing the font size on the taskbar. Hope this helps someone!
Thank you Roagie,
I've just install Affinity Photo 2.1.1 into my PC; all of my font size in task bar ( Win 11) and Affinity Photo turn to very small so that I can not read.
Lucky, I fixed the troubled following your guidance and every thing is fine now.
Thank you for your help
Son Nguyen
Neither of these works for me in Windows 11 Pro.
