Well, I started working on a Mac long time ago, all monitors were 72 dpi and all programs were real size, even Microsoft Word. It was marvelous, you could hold a printed page against the monitor and print and screen would fit up to the millimeter. When I switched to PCs and Windows (98, NT, XP), I insisted on keeping real size, although monitors improved, one of them is at 135 dpi now. And I still manage in most applications; biggest problem is with some web pages that insist on petite fonts, ignoring system settings. So I created a small background app (in C# of course) that upon ALT-S switches resolutions to some 80% of reality (and back) for easier reading those difficult pages, keeping track of desktop icon positions, and window sizes, restoring as much as possible when hitting ALT-S a second time. The one thing it does not do is restore the size of the windows that were minimized (I dont know how to get/set these values, I think they are well hidden inside Windows Explorer). Any suggestion here would be welcome. :)
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