ColdFusion Builder showing small icons on high resolution screens

I just change 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>

3. 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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