Poor Visibility on Non-Register Font in Quicken Classic

dasw

I just purchased the Quicken Classic Premier. I was able to increase the font in my registers to bold but everything else including the main display screen is a very small light blue font with a white or light gray background. The suggestions in the latest tutorial don't work including all preferences and views as well as changing Window 10 settings.

After researching all the topics I found that this has been going on since before 2018 and no updates have been done to fix this problem. Today I voted to have this problem addressed and the last comment was in 2023 when someone said the font was a little better but only on the Mobile and Web versions. No such luck on the Desktop version. Not very good for the visibly challenged.

Please respond if you have noticed this issue or heard any new news. Thank you.

Ducksoup_SD

You can use the Windows Display Accessibility settings to change the primary text size (before you open Quicken). I just tried it (Make Everything Bigger to 150%) and it messed up my desktop layout, but when I set it back to my normal (125%), the desktop returned to it's normal state. No font controls, though, so you only get bigger = maybe better. The Text-only slider doesn't work at all with Quicken, even after a restart.

Hope this can help you!

UKR

Font size problems? Display issues? (Windows)
Please try the following:
- Close Quicken !!! (This process won't work while Quicken is running!)
- Check the Compatibility tab settings in your Quicken Desktop program icon:
- In the Windows Start Menu right-click the Quicken icon. Select "Open File Location". This brings up a Windows File Explorer window. Right-click the highlighted Quicken shortcut line item.
or
- Go to the traditional Windows Desktop and right-click the Quicken program icon.
or
- Use Windows File Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Quicken\ and right-click qw.exe
- Now click Properties.
- Select the Compatibility tab.
- Uncheck all settings.
- Windows 7, 8.1: Check "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings".
- Windows 10, 11: Click "Change high DPI settings". Check "Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by:" and select "Application" (also try the other available options repeating the entire procedure!). Click OK.

• Users with high resolution monitors, 3840x2160 with 225% scaling, try "System (Enhanced)"
• Be sure to uncheck the "Run this program in compatibility mode for [older Windows version]" setting.
• Click the "Change settings for all users" button.
• Click Apply and exit.
• Reboot Windows.
• Now start Quicken and see if that makes a difference.

Some additional tuning suggestions:

• System requirements: 1024x768 or higher screen resolution, 1280x1024 minimum for Large Fonts settings
• Unless absolutely required, try not to use "View / Use large fonts"
• Try setting the bank account registers to use a different font style or size: go to Edit / Preferences / Register, click the Fonts button and try different fonts.
• Try adjusting the bank account registers' row height: go to Edit / Preferences / Register, choose among the available Row Height choices: Compact, Comfortable or Standard
• If all else fails, try changing Windows Control Panel / Display options for "Make text and other items … smaller or larger" to use a different scaling level, but try not to exceed 125%
• Try using the Windows Magnifier. Press the Windows logo key and the = key to open Magnifier. Customize Magnifier to increment Zoom in 25% intervals. Also try "dark mode" by using inverted colors.