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Message: [QUOTE="PaoloDejaVu, post: 13396811"] Can the active desktop be set to a different DPI than IE8. IE8 uses the font DPI setting of the Windows XP operating system. If you change the font DPI from its standard setting of 96 DPI normal to 120 DPI large, IE8 will render the active desktop with the same change, (since the active desktop is a web page) this will in turn change the desktop image (photo), enlarging it so that it no longer fits on to the monitor correctly, if you have 2 monitors the primary windows monitor image will be enlarged to part of the second monitor and part of the image on the second monitor will be missing. IE8 has a setting to change the DPI back to 96 DPI in the compatibility mode but the desktop image is not displayed in the IE8 browser window so it there is no setting to make the desktop image, compatible or 96 DPI. Changing the font size to large under the Appearance tab, instead of the Settings Advanced tab, does not help the small fonts in the active window. If you are using a laptop computer with 1920x1200 Screen resolution this makes the fonts in the active window painfully small. My question is: Is there some way to use IE8 with 120 DPI fonts and get the active desktop image set back to its original size? The following statement came from a Microsoft site; it establishes the connection between the 120 DPI and the enlarged desktop image. â€œBy default, Internet Explorer 8 will zoom the content of the web to match your Windows DPI Scaling settings. (Note that this is a change from Internet Explorer 7, which did not zoom to match Windows DPI Scaling settings.) For example, if you set your DPI Scaling to 120 dpi, Internet Explorer 8 will zoom the content of webpages by 125%.â€ [URL]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/readiness/developers-existing.aspx#dpi[/URL] This explains why the active desktop which was fine in IE7 is now zoomed to 125% in IE8. [/QUOTE]

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