Magnify – Use you monitor in the “too small to read that stuff”-area

Overview

Toggle the magnification tool – One button solution!

Some ordinary introduction

You can actually skip this part.

For some games i like to not sit in the front of my keyboard – while Controller Companion does a good job on this issue, it will not help me if i want to do some stuff like file selection or simply reading small text.

My monitor may be just too small – i accept PayPal donations.

This is why i wanted to use the build in magnification utility.
Simply using the custom shortcut “C:WindowsSystem32Magnify.exe” will – of course – start the application. But it can not close it.

Here comes some batch “code” handy, that can be run by Controller Companion.

The actual batch file – and how to create it.

This simple batch file will toggle the “magnify.exe” on and off, by pressing the same one button.

The only annoying thing – at least for me – is the small command window, that pops up and disappears almost instantly, but while there is no native magnification in CC, this workaround seems to be the best approximation.

In order to use the file, you should create a corresponding shortcut in CC.

1. Launch Notepad.
2. Insert the following code.
3. Select “File > Save As” on the menu.
4. Select an place to store the file.
5. Select an file name and append “.bat”
6. Make sure, the file name does not contain “.txt”
7. Set the file type to “All files (*.*)”
8. Click “Save”.

Some extra sauce

You should really take some minute to configure the Magnify.exe.
You may like one mode over the others or like the inverted color option.

Pro tip (“rect mode”):
– Press the little gear and alternate the rectangle until it suits your needs.

The batch file will kill all processes, called “Magnify.exe”.
If you use any other tool equally named, it will get closed too.
It is very unlikely that this would ever happen.