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ColdFusion Builder showing small icons on high resolution screens

Published Nov 24, 2017Last updated Nov 27, 2017

I just changed my laptop to a new one that has 3200 x 1800 resolution, but when opening ColdFusion Builder the tool bars and icons display very small, even the home screen shows very small in Windows .

So I found the solution by tweaking the registry a little:

  1. Open the Registry and navigate to this path Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide, add a new DWORD record named " PreferExternalManifest" with value " 1"
  2. In the CF builder installation directory (C:\ColdFusionBuilder2016) create a file named CFBuilder.exe.manifest with this content
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>     
    	<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
        	<description>eclipse</description>         
            	<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">         
                	<security>             
                    	<requestedPrivileges>                 
                        	<requestedExecutionLevel xmlns:ms_asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3" level="asInvoker" ms_asmv3:uiAccess="false"></requestedExecutionLevel>             
                    	</requestedPrivileges>         
                	</security>         
                </trustInfo>         
                <asmv3:application>             
                	<asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">				    
                    	<ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware xmlns:ms_windowsSettings="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">false</ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware>             
                    </asmv3:windowsSettings>         
                </asmv3:application>     
            </assembly>
  1. Restart.

*Note: Some windows updates will remove the PreferExternalManifest record from the registry so you only need to add the record again.

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