Enlarging everything on 16" 1920x1080 notebook display in Windows 7

"I've been using a 15.4"" 1920x1200 laptop (Lenovo W500) under Windows 7 with the DPI set to 150% for the last 6 months, and I've yet to run into the nastiness that Windows XP had at high DPIs. I also have it running at an even higher DPI for my 6 year old, since he has troubles losing the cursor, and it doesn't look bad.

Windows itself and the various decorations look fine at high DPI. WPF and Windows forms apps work great. Office 2007/2010 work great. Photoshop and Lightroom are unaffected by the DPI settings and look really small. Some apps are just directly scaled and work fine, but look somewhat pixelated if you look closely (of course on such a high DPI screen, pixelation is harder to see anyway). Most apps now come with high enough resolution icons that you don't have that issue too often. In Firefox, the app itself scales, but the webpages don't, unless you zoom in manually.

Overall, it's not the most seamless experience, but it's actually workable now, unlike the weird font scaling that XP did. The increased sharpness/detail in images and documents and the ability to use a much smaller font in Visual Studio makes it worth it."