Menu font size in CS5 Photoshop

I finally figured out how to change the font size in all Adobe menues using Windows 8.
Go to Display in Control Panel, look down the window and see "change only text size"
Click on the drop down menu that has "Title bars" in it, you will then see a list of various parameters, namely "menues".
Click "menues"
Go to the right of menues where you are likely to see font 9, change that to 10,12, 14 or whatever you would like. I use 14
click "apply" and bingo! When you go back to Photoshop you can finally see the words in the menu!
Windows 8 sets the menu sizes to tiny.

There is not, unfortunately - some people alter screen resolution for that alone, or make use of Zoom from System Preferences - Accessibility... which isn't the same thing at all, but can help keep things usable.

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