Properties' pop-up font too small

Gettin' old and it's hard to see the info on the Properties pop-up windows. I've spent several hours reading about changing fonts, but nothing directly related to the size of the Properties font. I can't find any information for WIN10 or 11.
Any help would be appreciated!

you can try the program listed here by @glasskuter
there are others like it, but this one seems to be most people's choice for dialog box font scaling

Please image your system before you do it.

Welcome to the forum. While we can change some elements such as font size in certain areas of windows, from all I've read we can not do anything with the small fonts in properties just like we can't change font size in control panel and a few other areas because these are hardcoded fonts.. I have spent a lot of time trying different changes and tweaks and finally got MOST of the fonts in windows to something I can live with.

Microsoft recommends users with vision issues use the magnifier in these areas where fonts can not be enlarged. Rather than using the keyboard method method I put in that old thread dacrone referred you to, you can pin magnifier to the taskbar by searching for magnifier, In the search result click "pin to taskbar"..

The size of the fonts on your screen all starts with scale. If you have trouble seeing fonts in other area of Windows, depending on the size of your monitor, you can increase your scale a bit to see if it helps any. However this will affect the size of most fonts in Windows, but not properties. Settings>system>display>scale. Any further tweaking works off this scale setting.

The thing that helped me most was changing my system font to a different font with more density. Doing this does not make fonts any bigger, just darker everywhere, including properties,.There are a number of fonts already installed in windows that you can use. You can check them out in control panel>fonts.
If Aptos is installed you might try Aptos SemiBold

Here is a tutorial how to change the system font natively in Windows which is how I did it..
You can also use the third party software Advanced System Font Changer that @dacrone referenced you to to select what you want. You can also change the size for different elements of Windows with that app.

Whatever changes you make be sure to do it in gradual increments. As another user suggested, it's always smart to image your system before making such changes.

Thanks to dacrone, krism, and glasskuter!

I'll try the third-party software. And, yes, krism, I'll make sure I have a good image. Glasskuter, I have increased my standard fonts and even in Outlook (but it has its glitches). I haven't tried the Magnifier yet; basically, I would like to make the change once instead of having to perform a special task every time I need to read the Properties...

I'll let you all know.

Wicked Dum said:

basically, I would like to make the change once instead of having to perform a special task every time I need to read the Properties...

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Sorry, in this case I believe you're probably whistling Dixie...from California ...and it ain't gonna happen. MS is pretty good about letting us change a lot of things, but some things in the GUI are locked down tighter than a drum.. I never have understood their reasoning about some things. Just like this case, you right click something, the menu that pops up is the size font you've chosen. Any item that has an extended menu, that menu is also the size font you've chosen. Jump down and click properties and it's almost unreadable for a lot of people. Just makes no sense.
The fact you use a laptop makes it worse.

Wicked Dum said:

Gettin' old and it's hard to see the info on the Properties pop-up windows. I've spent several hours reading about changing fonts, but nothing directly related to the size of the Properties font. I can't find any information for WIN10 or 11.
Any help would be appreciated!

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I am 82 yr.old. Come August, I will be 83. I fully understand your issue of font size on properties pop-up windows.
On my MS Surface Pro5 with a 12.3" screen, I changed the font size as follows:
Settings > System > Display > Scale.
From Scale, you can change the scale %.
I changed mine to 250%.
Screenshot below shows the difference :
Left image is 100% (recommended), right image is 250%.



Just one thing. The change applies to all windows, including the desktop.
Hope it is of any use to you.