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I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes.

Microsoft pissed me off when they removed the ability to selectively increase font-size of elements like context menus, labels, content / message boxes... Without this, I'd have to zoom everything - font, and icons - pixelated and ugly!

Now I'm forced to use winaero tweaker which doesn't allow all the changes I could in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and earlier versions of Win 10.

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> I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes.

Out of pure curiosity, how does that protect your eyes? And from what?

It doesn't. Eye fatigue is caused by being focused on the same depth for prolonged periods of time. That fixed depth being slightly closer or further away changes very little.

Having a habit of regularly looking away from your monitor and focusing on a distant object negates it. When doing prolonged microscopy work, we were trained to take a break every 30 min and focus on something very close, then focus on something far, back and forth, several times.

I suppose that is to avoid to look at a large screen too close.

With custom UI toolkits more prevalent than ever these days, do such tweaks even work across a wide range of applications?

It worked for all the applications I use except one - a music player.

And in that music player, it mostly worked except for some dialog boxes.

Generally, if stuff like this breaks I usually drop the application.

That's assuming you can drop it.

Yeah, sometimes that's a problem. Usually, these apps tend to be some sort of web technology, which means I can use them in a browser, so I've been lucky in that sense.

Windows is now an OS for amateurs and not professionals.

I feel you. https://xkcd.com/1172/

I totally forgot about this feature from my pre Mac windows XP days

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