Adobe App Scaling on High DPI Displays FIXI recently purchased a new Yoga 2 Pro with a gorgeous 3. My main purposes for this device was to do some heavy lifting on the the road with many of my professional applications. N1k_lL-svHQ/VzibS_4zzvI/AAAAAAAAIoY/UoUi9UI2oE0aY7ZymgaGUsfxM65X67XHQCLcB/s1600/adobereader.jpg' alt='Adobe Acrobat Flash Download Installer Win7 Sur' title='Adobe Acrobat Flash Download Installer Win7 Sur' />Search the worlds information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what youre looking for. Driver Multimedia Audio Controller Pci. Adobe Acrobat Flash Download Installer Win7' title='Adobe Acrobat Flash Download Installer Win7' />I was quickly discouraged when I first fired up Fireworks, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator to find that I needed a magnifying glass to see simple menu options. There is the simple solution of downing the resolution to 1. SO Rather than change a bunch of setting every time I needed to use a few apps by Adobe, I started to seek out a better solution without much luck. Root of the problem Short answer Adobe. Long answer When the apps load, Windows asks if the app is High DPI aware and these apps answer yes. Which is why you end up with an interface for ants. The solution Have the app tell Windows that it is not DPI aware and let it scale everything properly. Granted, this is not the ideal solution, but it does make the apps usable againHow it is done Tell Windows to look for an external manifest file. Create the external manifest files. Step 1 Tell windows to prefer an external manifest file. As always, make sure you backup your registry and tread lightly in this area. Hijacking file extensions, forcing itself into context menus and downloading additional data no, its not a virus, but any app you can mention from NCH Software. We are just going to add one line. This is VERY simple. Do not be intimidated. Press Windows Button R, type regedit, and then click OK. Navigate to the following registry subkey. HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows Current. Version Side. By. Side. Right click, select NEW DWORD 3. Value. Type Prefer. External. Manifest, and then press ENTER. Right click Prefer. External. Manifest, and then click Modify. Enter Value Data 1 and select Decimal. Click OK. Exit Registry Editor. For reference, here is a link to a Microsoft support file on the topic https support. Step 2 Create and place the external manifest files. Now comes the fun part. You will just have to copy your manifest file to all of the application folders that you would like to change the scaling on. For example, Photoshop. C Program FilesAdobeAdobe Photoshop CS6 6. Bit and I created a manifest file in text editor named photoshop. Here is a link to a txt file with the manifest code manifest. For Windows to use the external manifest file, you will have to change the name of the the file to the executable of the application. Here are the files I created for my machine Right click and save to use on your machine Now place this file in the same directory as your executable. All of the ones listed above are are in pretty straight forward locations like C Program Files x. Adobe or C Program FilesAdobe. That is it It should look great now. No need to reboot or change anything else. Video Example. Download. Right Click Save Link As. External. Manifest. File REGISTRY Dan. Antonielli. com. reg. Download example Manifest file Right Click Save Link As. UPDATE July 2. 01. This solution also works with Windows 1. UPDATE December 2. Uploaded a quick videoHow to really, really disable auto update popup. Adobe Community. Hi pxstein,Thanks for posting the screenshots, especially the one of the Process Explorer. It indicates that this is not an auto update install situation. This type of installation is triggered via content on the page that requires a newer version of Flash Player your screenshot indicates you have 1. Since this type of installation is controlled by the content, there isnt a way to disable it. Normally, IE displays a User Account Control dialog window or a dialog bar at the bottom of the page asking if you want to saverun the file. I dont see these in your screenshots and you dont mention if they displayed or not. If not, you may have disabled this warning at some point in time. Flash Player 1. 1. My recommendation is to update Flash Player to the latest version, 1. Internet Explorer 1. IE browsers on Windows. If you dont want the latest features available in Flash Player 1. Extended Support Release ESR version. This is a previous stable version that we only release security updates for. Currently this is 1. Internet Explorer and non IE browsers on Windows. To download the latest version, go to https get. Internet Explorer. To download the ESR version, go to Adobe Flash Player Distribution Adobe. The links to download the FP 1. ESR version are at the bottom of the page.