When Microsoft released the Windows 10 Technical Preview in early October, I decided that the safest testing environment for running Windows 10 would be to use a virtual machine rather than installing the operating system over my current Windows 8.1 installation.
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Let's talk about: Windows RDP – DPI Scaling (Easy Trick to Fix!)
Although the Technical Preview installation completed successfully, my PC has a high-resolution display (Retina) and there appears to be an issue with the virtualization software and Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, as I noticed that when I use scaling, the Modern Experience and Desktop Taskbar automatically adjust to display properly on high-resolution displays, but the Start menu, apps, text, and other on-screen items do not scale properly.
While there is no permanent solution, there is a workaround that you can use to get everything working smoothly again. This requires you to modify a Windows registry key.
Open the Windows Registry (regedit.exe) as administrator and locate the following path:
