How fix program scaling issues in Windows 10

If you're having issues with certain apps scaling on high DPI monitors this should help alleviate the problem: http://spaghettidba.com/2015/10/14/ssms-in-high-dpi-displays-how-to-stop-the-madness/

While this article is specifically about SQL Server Management Studio 2014 this process should work for any Win32 .exe. Just create the registry entry and then for every program you want to enable bitmap scaling, just put the manifest file in this link in the same folder as that executable. So if you have a program called "xxxx.exe" you'd put the manifest file in the same directory as the program and name it "xxxx.exe.manifest". The contents of the manifest file don't change, just the file name will need to change to match the name of the program. So as you need to add this for other programs you can just copy the same one over for another program and simply rename it and done.

I've been using this for a month now and it's fixed every program that either didn't scale properly at high DPI or had a problem with monitors of different scaling factors. Even new apps like Adobe Acrobat DC didn't scale properly on my Surface Book when connected to a 24" 1920x1200 monitor. It was fine on the Surface Book screen but the menus didn't resize properly on the external monitor. Added this and now it's working perfectly on each monitor.

So if you have multiple monitors of high and low DPI or just having issues with certain apps on a high DPI, this should come in handy.

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