Fix DPI scaling issues in Windows

If you have a computer with an awesome hi-res display (mine is 3840 x 2160) you might know the problem: some older application don’t follow the DPI upscaling setting of Windows, which makes them in practise unusable.

To fix this issue, you can tell Windows to manually scale up some particular applicatons. To do this, you must first find the place where the application file is located, for example by right-clicking on the program in the start menu:

step1-findfileThen enter the properties page of the file with another right-click:

step2-filepropertiesand tell Windows in the compatibility tab to do the scaling instead of asking the application to do it:

step3-DPIcompatibility