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Q&A How can I click inside a gnarled window?

That looks like a font scaling or DPI issue – those ━ □ 🞩 buttons look far-enough apart that the OS might be deliberately scaling to make a touch screen easier to use, but apps that are not aware o...

posted 10mo ago by jimbobmcgee‭ · edited 10mo ago by jimbobmcgee‭

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jimbobmcgee‭ · 2023-06-22T18:09:22Z (10 months ago)

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That looks like a font scaling or DPI issue -- those `━` `□` `🞩` buttons look far-enough apart that the OS might be deliberately scaling to make a touch screen easier to use, but apps that are not aware of this scaling use fixed-size regions for displaying certain text labels and do not stretch to accomodate the larger font.
~~As a test, open the various Display Settings pages (`⊞` `ms-settings:display` and `⊞` `ms-settings:easeofaccess-display`) and see if any scaling options are set to higher than 100%.~~
There is a slight indication in your screenshot (i.e. the partial view of a filled radio button `◉`) that the **Standard Installation** option is already selected. If you need a portable install, clicking the bolder header text of **Portable Installation** *should* fill its radio button instead.
If mouse-click really doesn't work, try the keyboard. Press the `Tab ↹` key to navigate the options – the focused option should get a dotted line around it. When it gets to one of those options, the `↑`/`↓` arrow keys should change the selection.
The `□` button being greyed out is very common for small dialog windows. It probably wouldn't fix your issue anyway, because of the fixed-size labels -- if they _could_ stretch, they would already be doing so.

That looks like a font scaling or DPI issue – those `━` `□` `🞩` buttons look far-enough apart that the OS might be deliberately scaling to make a touch screen easier to use, but apps that are not aware of this scaling use fixed-size regions for displaying certain text labels and do not stretch to accomodate the larger font.
As a test, open the various Display Settings pages (`⊞`+`R` `ms-settings:display` and `⊞`+`R` `ms-settings:easeofaccess-display`) and see if any scaling options are set to higher than 100%.
There is a slight indication in your screenshot (i.e. the partial view of a filled radio button `◉`) that the **Standard Installation** option is already selected. If you need a portable install, clicking the bolder header text of **Portable Installation** *should* fill its radio button instead.
If mouse-click really doesn't work, try the keyboard. Press the `Tab ↹` key to navigate the options – the focused option should get a dotted line around it. When it gets to one of those options, the `↑`/`↓` arrow keys should change the selection.
The `□` button being greyed out is very common for small dialog windows. It probably wouldn't fix your issue anyway, because of the fixed-size labels -- if they _could_ stretch, they would already be doing so.

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jimbobmcgee‭ · 2023-06-22T16:12:39Z (10 months ago)

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That looks like a font scaling or DPI issue -- those `━` `□` `🞩` buttons look far-enough apart that the OS might be deliberately scaling to make a touch screen easier to use, but apps that are not aware of this scaling use fixed-size regions for displaying certain text labels and do not stretch to accomodate the larger font.

As a test, open the various Display Settings pages (`⊞` `ms-settings:display` and `⊞` `ms-settings:easeofaccess-display`) and see if any scaling options are set to higher than 100%.

There is a slight indication in your screenshot (i.e. the partial view of a filled radio button `◉`) that the **Standard Installation** option is already selected.  If you need a portable install, clicking the bolder header text of **Portable Installation** *should* fill its radio button instead.

If mouse-click really doesn't work, try the keyboard.  Press the `Tab ↹` key to navigate the options &ndash; the focused option should get a dotted line around it.  When it gets to one of those options, the `↑`/`↓` arrow keys should change the selection.

The `□` button being greyed out is very common for small dialog windows.  It probably wouldn't fix your issue anyway, because of the fixed-size labels -- if they _could_ stretch, they would already be doing so.

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