How to increase dpi settings on a server which does not have a video card to support Aero

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/whatforum/thread/282a63c2-bd57-4639-811b-c03c6b82b49b

Use the above article and the registry setting mentioned there, increase the text size to use a higher % than 100, then logout.

When you log back in via remote desktop from a machine which has an aero enabled graphics card, it will make the text much clearer.

Update: You have to set windows to use full blown aero mode with settings for best display rather than best performance. Otherwise, this will not work properly.
  • [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
    "Composition"=dword:00000001
    "CompositionPolicy"=dword:00000000
    "ColorizationOpaqueBlend"=dword:00000000
    "EnableAeroPeek"=dword:00000001
    "AlwaysHibernateThumbnails"=dword:00000000
    "UseDpiScaling"=dword:00000000

    So I can read register table to get the setting is set or not

    private bool IsDpiScaling()
    {
        RegistryKey k= Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\DWM");
        if (k!= null)
        {
            if ((int)k.GetValue("UseDpiScaling") == 1)
            {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

Comments

  1. Thanks Vijay for your post and forum link. I was been facing this problem since a month and finally solved it.

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