Question about Higher Resolutions

Okay, so I got a new monitor which supports at max 1920x1080, so I excitedly bumped it up.

But now I have run into a few graphic nuisances that make it irritating to use.

The main one being, everything on the screen is EXTREMELY small. I guess the high pixel rate kind of smashes everything down and makes it appear that it is physically smaller.

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/318/smallsz.png

I'm not sure if you would be able to notice my problem through a screenshot, since your resolution is probably different, you would be seeing a different scale size then I.

but if you can compare the taskbar fonts and the desktop icons, to the font in the browser, and then take into acount the size of the whole screen, you might see what I am talking about.

Yes, thankfully, Windows has some settings to counter-act this, in: Display Properties > Appearance > Advanced

But it doesn't let you change that much. The taskbar font (barely readable), taskbar icons/time, and start menu window width/height are stuck being small.

Also other areas here and there that I notice are graphically too small.

Has anyone run into this when using higher resolutions?

You would think they would make their OS more graphically compatible with different resolutions..

Fonts and everything will be scaled properly when the computer is set to the "Reccomended" resoultion.

Your screen shot is 1152x648, not 1920x1080. Could this be the problem?

Your screen shot is 1152x648, not 1920x1080. Could this be the problem?

That is probably because of the picture being scaled down while uploading it?

That is probably because of the picture being scaled down while uploading it?

didn't think of that, but the scaling is very readable. I think the monitor propably /supports/ the resolution, but its not the best one to run.

didn't think of that, but the scaling is very readable. I think the monitor propably /supports/ the resolution, but its not the best one to run.

yeah, the monitor supports the resolution. and yeah, guess it seems like it's not the most compatible one to run.

I just really want this to work out.

I'm thinking it might be possible to change these size values somewhere in the registry so I've been looking around for that.

I was just wondering if anyone else has ran into this.

And does anyone know if Windows 7 handles resolution scaling better?

BTW I resized the image myself so it's easier to see and upload ;)

http://ompldr.org/vNWt1dA

I'm not running windows XP on this machine, but I do recall an option to "hide modes this monitor can not display" and then selecting the highest resolution one (should be the "recommended" one, even if its not said.