Tiny display

Hello,
So I increased the size of fonts and everything. The display is perfect now and text is big enough to read. But the some softwares still have tiny display. Like for example, when I play YouTube video using FireFox browser the player has a very small icons. Same problem with VLC and Steam!
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Thanks!
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That is because those programs don't support DPI scaling.

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[IMG]http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x216/psycosquirrel789789/DSC01184.jpg[/IMG]
This pic is the best I could take. It makes it look really tiny, but it is bigger than it looks in the pic.

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I'm sorry, I don't mean to be condescending. But the problem is you've paid extra for something that's actually an improvement, but now you don't want it to work any differently than what you had before.
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DEAR SIRS,
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