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Compressed looking text, HOW to fix?

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designmr

Mechanical
Nov 29, 2005
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Hello, and thank you in advance.
I am using a licensed 2018 version of Solidworks. I have a laptop plus two large 32" monitors.

It's a little hassle since text sizes seem to be different on each screen.

The Solidworks explorer text is all bunched up, NOT sure how or what settings I need to modify to be able to even read it. I can read everything on Solidworks fine, but EXPLORER is impossible. And the task I have coming up I really need Explorer.
Also, if I click on anything in Explorer, the text size is even smaller, I will need magnifying glass to read.

(My settings are text 300%, Display resolution is 3840 x 2400 (recommended))

Not sure if the picture I uploaded has the view of the Explorer all bunched up text, it is unreadable.
 
 https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=be6f6587-78e2-4cda-a2aa-6f9b4529e07c&file=SW_EXPLORER.jpg
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I have a 42" Samsung 4K monitor and I only zoom it to 125% @ 3840 x 2160 Res, I am not seeing that issue with my Samsung 4K monitor. I don't run SW full screen either. I don't want my mouse traveling that far. Try reducing the zoom on the monitor; if you cannot see the text, you need to get better glasses. I have to wear a special set of glasses to see my computer screens.

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Thank you SBaugh, an IT fixed my problem, seem the laptop and large screen needed different settings...go figure
 
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