Characters in Photoshop 8 too small

After installing Photoshop 8 successfully in my new computer equipped with Win 8.1, the characters are too small (size 6 and 8), so are the tool icons. In my old computer equipped with Win XP, the characters were normal (size 10 and 11) nd icons larger. I arranged in Win 8.1 that all display's characters have the size 10 or 11. Photoshop 8 doesn't follow it. How to make it display the same sizes as it is in the other applications which follow suite? Thank you.
Regars,
Petar Volkov, E-mail: [email protected]

Sounds like you have a high resolution display. The Photoshop user interface has the same number of pixels it always had. Its just thatthe you pixels on your high resolution display are much smaller then the ones on your old low resolution display. Your old display had a resolution around 100 DPI your new display had a resolution around 300DPI so everything is 1/3 the width and 1/3the height of your 100 dpi display 1/9 the size you use to.
Adobe is working on making their PC UI adjustable to be useable on high resolution displays. Like they did in the Mac Photoshop version. For now Attach a external display to your laptop. All desktop display have low resolution around 100DPI. Photoshop will not be the only application you will have problems with.

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