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Hello

Is there a way to adjust Malwarebytes Premium user interface to present larger - easier for my old eyes.
Malwarebytes AdwCleaner user interface presents easier for old eyes.

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Thanks, yes, toggling it to the opposite of the default (in this case, On) is what I was referring to.  Unfortunately I don't know any way to scale it beyond that.  Scaling is tricky because it relies on Windows itself to handle it, and it can be pretty inconsistent as Microsoft's implementation and APIs are pretty complex, so one app may scale perfectly fine, while another may not, and in Windows 10 it's worse as it tries to scale and de-blur everything automatically by default, so the results can vary.  This Microsoft support article describes many of the common problems.  Unfortunately, beyond changing the system scaling and DPI settings, I don't know of any other way to make changes to how Malwarebytes scales as they are using the native Windows methods to allow the OS itself to control it.

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Yeah, maybe my post will prompt Malwarbytes Premium engineers to take a look.
AdwCleaner presents large/r - I'm thinking because of my 150% scaling. 

Maybe, Malwarebytes engineers want Malwarebytes Premium smaller footprint - smaller attack surface.  IDK
 
Thanks for your interest and information. 

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We've gotten other comments on it before, so I know they've looked at it.  I don't know what progress, if any, they've made on it, but I do know that they've made multiple attempts to improve how things scale.  I will note this thread for them though, just in case it prompts them to take another look, and hopefully they will find something new that they can change or do to improve it.

Yes, the difference in Malwarebytes vs ADWCleaner is interesting, and I'll be sure to point it out in my notes to the team as well.  Maybe they can adopt the methods in use in that app to improve the scaling here.

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27 minutes ago, boogeyman said:

Agree 100%. My DPI is 150%. Monitor native is 2560 x 1440. Stretching the window "should" increase font size.

I've never seen any other application scale the size of text when resizing its window size, and Windows itself definitely doesn't (if your resize the window of any settings applet, control panel item, or Windows Explorer itself, all text remains the same size).  That said, it does scale with DPI, again, according to the native Windows APIs.  I don't know why it doesn't scale up the same as other applications; I just know that the Devs have stated that they are using the native Windows APIs for scaling applications to coincide with Windows' own settings.  I am curious as to why MBST and ADWCleaner appear larger though, and I can only speculate that they must be using a different method for scaling, so I will be putting in a request to scale it the same as they do in order to increase the size.

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Dark Theme novelty wore off.  I'm back with Light Theme. 

Appreciate+ that you've noted my presentation feedback with the Product team.

Malwarebytes Setup Wizard, Support Tool and AdwCleaner presentation are much more pleasing...to me. 
Just saying. 

Thanks again!

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