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I recently changed my screen magnification to "Medium - 125%" in Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Display, to test it out. I logged out and logged back in, and it worked. I didn't like it, so I changed the setting back to the default value of "Smaller - 100%". I logged out and logged back in again.

Now, my DPI seems broken. My taskbar seems to have the correct height, windows are the right size, and so on. However, my text font is much smaller than it used to be. The text in the title bars of programs, text in right-click menus, and a lot of text within program windows is much smaller than it used to be. Logging out and restarting my computer does nothing to help the issue.

I have checked the LogPixels value in the registry, and it is set to 96. What's the problem? How can I fix this?

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Have you tried a System Restore to a point before you started making hte DPI changes? – techie007 Nov 14 '11 at 14:42
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We Also had some specific Programs, that did not respond correctally to the Windows 7 DPI change, One program when I put the DPI up, the text got really small. It might be good to indicate what program specifically in your question? If it is any aspects of the OS itself and not program specific, "refresh your theme" , go to personalise themes and change the theme to another one, just as a starting point. Run a refresh on the desktop too. – Psycogeek Nov 14 '11 at 14:43
@Psycogeek Refreshing the theme fixed it. Thanks! If you post that as an answer then I could accept it. – Chris Kneller Nov 14 '11 at 15:24
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Most of the items you mentioned are also controlled by themes, The font sizes for the Operating systems title bars, and menues and all. Try Changing the theme in the control pannel personalisation themes, even if you change it right back to the theme you were on.

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+1. Re-select the "Windows" theme. – Ian Boyd Nov 14 '11 at 15:58
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