LR4 too small on Dell XPS15

I recently purchase a Dell XPS15 and install LR4. The problem is the screen display LR4 in such a small font and option boxes it's impossible to read. Is there a fix for this? I really don't want to change the resolution on my laptop every time I run LR4.

There is an option "Largest - 200%" for the font size available in Lightroom 5.3 (Windows 8.1) which makes the font quite readable on my XPS 15.
(Medium is 100% and Large is 150%)
FYI: Photoshop CC still has fonts/icons that are at the smaller 100% size. Scaling to 200% has yet to be fixed by Microsoft/Adobe. It is very difficult to use currently (one must have good knowledge of the keyboard shortcuts vs clicking with mouse)
Bruce

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You've bought a 15 inch notebook with a 3200 x 1800 display, and stuff looks small on it? What on earth did you expect?
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