Opening associated program not high DPI aware [SOLVED]

[dmonder]

I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 6 with a high-DPI screen. Here is my problem:

. Navigate to a Microsoft Excel file in Altap Salamander
. Open a file by double-clicking on file name

File opens as DPI Unware.

If I navigate to the same file using Windows Explorer (the built-in file manager in Windows 10), and open the file by double-clicking the file, it opens System Aware.

A similar problem happens when opening a Visual Studio project file, though in Windows Explorer, it opens Per-Monitor Aware.

I also tried opening an Excel file from Microsoft Teams and from OneDrive in my browser. Both of those also open the file System Aware.

Any idea why this would be happening?

[SelfMan]

Check this out and try it.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... -a-process

[dmonder]

I am not sure how this applies to my situation nor how I would apply what it says. This looks like it is describing something the programmers of Salamander need to do? Am I misunderstanding this?

[SelfMan]

Go to the folder where you installed salamander. (run salamander as administrator) Create a new text file salamand.txt, and put the following XML structure in it:

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<?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">
  <asmv3:application>
    <asmv3:windowsSettings>
      <dpiAware xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">true</dpiAware>
    </asmv3:windowsSettings>
  </asmv3:application>
</assembly>

save it and rename the file to salamand.xml
Restart Salamander and see how it works.
Other things you can do are in this thread.

[dmonder]

It looks like these are all specific to changing how Salamander works. Salamander works fine for me. It is when Salamander opens other programs that should be DPI aware that the problem occurs. I did try adding the XML file you suggested but it did not change the behavior I am seeing. I will try the others, but I expect the same results.

[SelfMan]

What version of MS Office are you using?
Also check if any of this applies to you.

[dmonder]

It looks like I was wrong. I went into the properties of the shortcut and unselected the override option that was selected on the high-dpi and restarted Salamander. It started up System Aware and opened the two files correctly.

I am sorry I doubted your advice but glad I tried it. THANK YOU! That was driving me crazy.

[SelfMan]

No problem. You are welcome.