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Display is stuck at 175% and cannot reset
I've tried so many times to reset the scale back to normal but it is literally stuck at 175%. I have tried setting it to 100% and 'turn off custom scaling' but nothing works. There is no button to actually reset it either. I'm out of options.. does anyone have any ideas that might work? Last image is how my web browser and any app I open looks like. Very difficult to use.
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We can see the scale is set to 100% in the screenshot
I’ve seen this happen—Windows scaling can bug out and get stuck, especially after using custom scaling. Here’s what usually works for me:
Sign out and back in after changing the scaling setting (sometimes it needs a restart or sign-out to actually apply).
Go to Settings > System > Display > Scale, set it to 100%, and apply, then restart your PC.
If “Turn off custom scaling” is grayed out or not working, open Run (Win + R), type ms-settings:easeofaccess-display and make sure “Make everything bigger” is set to 100%.
If still stuck, try changing it to another value (like 125%), apply, restart, then go back to 100%.
This worked for me, thanks!
Tried to already, the minimum is 100 I can't put anything below that.
I have tried that already, the above screenshots are the settings with scaling turned off. When I change it to 100%, that's when I see a greyed out 175% which I cannot change for some reason.
I have exactly the same problem, so far spent two days trying to fix this - did you ahve any luck?
Right-click on the desktop and select Display settings.
Under Scale & layout, try adjusting the scaling percentage manually. If it doesn’t work, proceed to the next steps.
Here's what it looks like. Greyed out so I can't change the scale 100%
Once I hit 'turn off custom scale and sign out' it remains stuck at 175%
I think I cracked it!
on my laptop the Text size was set to 175% and I think that it was affecting the scaling, when I changed the text to 100% everything is back to normal
