I recently purchased a new Yoga 2 Pro with a gorgeous 3200 x 1800 display. My main purposes for this device was to do some heavy lifting on the the road with many of my professional applications. I was quickly discouraged when I first fired up Fireworks, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator to find that I needed a magnifying glass to see simple menu options.

There is the simple solution of downing the resolution to 1600 x 900 and changing the scaling to 100%, but you cut your gorgeous display down to a quarter of its previous gloryand that’s not the point. Rather than change a bunch of setting every time I needed to use a few apps by Adobe, I started to seek out a better solution without much luck. Root of the problem: Short answer: Adobe. Long answer: When the apps load, Windows asks if the app is High DPI aware and these apps answer “yes”. Which is why you end up with an interface for ants.

The solution: Have the app tell Windows that it is not DPI aware and let it scale everything properly. (Granted, this is not the ideal solution, but it does make the apps usable again) How it is done:.

Tell Windows to look for an external manifest file. Create the external manifest files. Step 1: Tell windows to prefer an external manifest file As always, make sure you backup your registry and tread lightly in this area. We are just going to add one line. This is VERY simple. Do not be intimidated.

Press Windows Button + R, type “regedit”, and then click OK. Navigate to the following registry subkey:. HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion SideBySide. Right-click, select NEW DWORD (32 bit) Value. Type PreferExternalManifest, and then press ENTER.

Right-click PreferExternalManifest, and then click Modify. Enter Value Data 1 and select Decimal. Click OK. Exit Registry Editor. For reference, here is a link to a Microsoft support file on the topic: Step 2: Create and place the external manifest files Now comes the fun part.

You will just have to copy your manifest file to all of the application folders that you would like to change the scaling on. For example, Photoshop.exe is located at: C: Program Files Adobe Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit) and I created a manifest file in text editor named photoshop.exe.manifest to place in that folder. Here is a link to a txt file with the manifest code: For Windows to use the external manifest file, you will have to change the name of the the file to the executable of the application. Here are the files I created for my machine (Right-click and save to use on your machine):.

Now place this file in the same directory as your executable. All of the ones listed above are are in pretty straight forward locations like C: Program Files (x86) Adobe or C: Program Files Adobe. It should look great now.

No need to reboot or change anything else. Video Example Download.reg file (Right Click Save Link As.): Download example Manifest file (Right Click Save Link As.): UPDATE July 2015: This solution also works with Windows 10! UPDATE December 2016: Uploaded a quick video! I am using this workaround on photoshop CS6, (thanks!) windows 8.1, laptop screen resolution 2560 x 1440 One issue I am having is that the images you are working with will have a “pixellated” look (much like the menus text does, which is now readable but not full-res looking) regardless of whether you are working with a large (i.e. Big pixel dimensions) image or not, and regardless of how far one is magnified in or out. Although this might be the tradeoff for being able to actually read the menus in PhotoshopCS6, I am curious if this is the same experience others are having with this workaround?

Is there anything anyone else has tried that helps compensate this aspect of the workaround? Again, I recognize that editing the manifest files is an unauthorized “quick fix” and not the ideal way to get this to happen, so understandable there would be some “fallout” related to fixing this way. Thanks everyone. Hey john, the process works exactly as described for other programs.

First open up the registry and be very careful to make the exact changes as specified in the tutorial. Just copy and paste the text from his “manifest.txt” file into notepad, save it as a.manifest file (select “any type” in the drop-down menu) and name it the.exe file for the program you want to adjust. For example, in the case of AutoCAD (Acad.exe), you would save it as “Acad.exe.manifest”. Then, move the file into the same folder as the executable. This should solve the scaling issues.

Folks – sorry to repeat a comment, but this post is the closest thing I’ve seen to a solution, and yet it’s not working for me. When I follow the above instructions and then run the application, I get “The system cannot find the file specified.” I’m running Windows 7 Home Premium and the app I’m trying to fix is Photoshop CS5 (64-bit).

Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong? Does something need to be tweaked in the Manifest file? A setting/permission on the app? Something else in the registry? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Regards, -Brian Greenberg. I tried to make this work for Photoshop Elements 11 on Windows 8.1, but I’m getting the “The application was unable to start correctly.” error.

I suspect it is some kind of permission problem, or I’m not putting the manifest file in the correct location. Photoshop Elements on Windows 8.1 is started from a link that has “C: Program Files (x86) Adobe Elements 11 Organizer Photoshop Elements 11.0.exe” as the target application. So, I put a copy of the “Photoshop.exe.manifest” file provided above and renamed it to “Photoshop Elements 11.0.exe.manifest”. I put this manifest file in the “C: Program Files (x86) Adobe Elements 11 Organizer ” folder. Any suggestions? This worked!!

Thank you very much Dan!! Strange though I only had to paste the Photoshop manifest in there and it changed all the creative suite programs as well. No complaints about that other than Adobe Bridge was left unchanged and still with ant-sized text. I tried doing a bridge.exe.manifest but couldn’t find where to past it other than in the 64 bit adobe file in the bridge folderbut it didn’t work. Is the 32 bit vs 64 bit critical? I am assuming so but I can’t find a Bridge folder anywhere in the 32 bit adobe folder. What am I missing?

Also, is this workaround affecting image sharpness for when I need to edit my photography work at all or does it only affect the menu items? Thanks again Dan! It doesn’t work for me, or I don’t do it properly. I created the photoshop.exe.manifest file and cut of the.manifest part, so it became an application. I then placed it in C:/Program files (x86)/adobe/adobe photoshop CS6 (the same place where the original photoshop.exe file is located. It didn’t say that it could not be copied or anything and it is sitting right below the orignal photoshop.exe, but when I start photoshop it still is as tiny as ever. What am I doing wrong?

I followed the first steps with easy and everything is what it’s supposed to be. I must be doing something wrong with the placing of the file. First of all THANK YOU for publishing this.

I have a Surface Pro 3 and while I kinda like all the workspace that a tiny interface frees up, it’s useless if the tools are too small to select. The manifest fix worked for the 64 bit version of Photoshop CS5, but not for the 32 bit. I don’t know if I care, but I thought it was odd. I used the same file, copied it in both folders, but one works and one doesn’t.

I get the “Application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)” error. If I delete the manifest file, it opens properly but has the tiny interface. Is it maybe the processor architecture info in the manifest file? I’m not the. All of the Manifest files are exactly the same. The only thing that is different is the file name. This is what it should look like in the application folder: photoshop.exe photoshop.exe.manifest — If you are having issues, try the following: 1) Make sure you have extensions showing.

2) Make sure you are running everything as administrator. 3) Try toggling on/off the “Disable display scaling on high DPI settings” under the apps Compatibility settings. 4) Restart the system after the adjustments.

5) Make sure your system is completely up to date through ‘Windows Update’. — If everything above was done and double checked.

The issue is most likely with the RegEdit portions. Either your adjustments are incorrect or not sticking. — To be 100% certain that the issue is with the ‘manifest’ file. Remove or rename it (the.manifest file) in the app folder and launch the application. 1) If the app launches properly. There is something wrong with the external manifest procedure.

2) If the app runs the same error as with the manifest file. There is something wrong with your applications install. Hi, just want to leave a comment for those who left messages stating they were using CS5 and it was still failing. Let me begin by stating my specs: Yoga 2, Res 3200X1800, Windows 8.1, CS5. This process works to a T but only for 64bit, fails under 32bit. However, please know that, as stated earlier, this is not a perfect solution. It basically looks like CS5 under 1600X900.

For those who could not achieve this effect, please see the following work around.it maybe stupid but it achieves that exact same result for CS5. Change your screen resolution to 1600X900.sign out and sign inopen CS5and then change your screen resolution back to 3200X1800 Real stupid right?? It’s because it is.

For those of you complaining that Adobe doesn’t support high DPI in CS5 or 6, old software that is 4 or 5 years old simply doesn’t support the latest and greatest hardware. It’s like this with most publishers, and most software that old isn’t going to adapt well to 4k or other high DPI configurations. The Windows operating system is still lagging behind on scaling support, Windows 7 is abysmal, 8 is a bit better, and 10 should be better still. You should really be running Windows 8 if you want the most up to date scaling controls, but if you’re not prepared to also upgrade your Adobe software, to CC in this case, don’t upgrade your display hardware.

The scaling features in CC work quite well in most applications, save for Bridge, which hasn’t seen an update in quite some time. On my 32″ 4K, at 150% percent scaling in Windows 8.1, the experimental scaling in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc. Works very good. The application looks exactly as it would at more normal resolutions. Mac is either also lagging behind, or Adobe is.

I am a digital illustrator and graphic designer. I have had NO problem using Adobe software until now.

I have been using Illustrator and Photoshop since Illustrator 88 and Photoshop 1, and I use CS5.5 about 12 hours a day. I just installed CS6 on a brand new 27-inch iMac with a “native” resolution of 2560 x 1440.

I do very detailed work, and hoped that the new screen would improve my productivity. But I can no longer use Photoshop and Illustrator. I literally cannot SEE the tool icons. I can barely read the menu text in spite of setting it to the “largest” size. I don’t know what to do. I have to let my assistant use the new iMac and go back to the one from 2010.

Any suggestions? Li, a 27″ at 2560 x 1440 is only a little higher in pixel density than a 24″ at 1920 x 1080. Yes, visually things are going to appear smaller, but only by about 18%. It’s an incredibly common monitor size and native resolution now. You shouldn’t have too many problems with CS6, or any software for that matter. Most applications are going to scale the same way. Some applications have scaling options.

However, CS6 does not support any scaling. If you want a UI that scales to the latest hardware, you need to use CC. Adobe will not be supporting high resolution monitors with CS6. Dear Brad — Thank you so much for your response. To clarify, I was asking for advice on increasing the Adobe UI scale on the Mac because I cannot see the tools, regardless of what I “ought” to be able to see. I use a 27-inch monitor in both cases. The older iMac is set to 1920×1080 and still looks sharp.

Unfortunately, reducing the monitor resolution on the higher-res Retina monitor creates distortions and halos, so that is not an option and I had to leave it alone. But the CS6 menus and tools are now reduced in size by 66%! I quite literally cannot SEE them. They are too small.

I truly don’t know if that’s an arrow or a pencil unless I remember its position in the toolbox. Changing Brightness, Contrast, Interface and Accessibility text sizes do not help in the slightest.

So do you know of a way to scale the Adobe UI on a Mac? Are you suggesting that it IS possible with Creative Cloud?

I would be grateful for any advice. Li, the interface being that small leads me to believe there’s something else amiss somewhere. It should be a bit smaller, but not that bad. I don’t know enough about Macs these days to know if there is a scaling setting somewhere in either the Adobe preferences or in the OS itself. That being said, yes, Creative Cloud does have a 200% scaling feature for the UI for high DPS displays. It looks great on my 32 inch 4K, but I can’t comment on how it would look on a 27″ iMac.

Might be a bit big. I would see if you can’t get more info from the Adobe forums if I were you. Dan; nice work; thank you very much. You’d mentioned: 3) Try toggling on/off the “Disable display scaling on high DPI settings” under the apps Compatibility settings. This setting should definitely be off. I had it on so I could drag windows to a regular monitor (LoDpi?) to read them when necessary.

(When it is off, Windows downsamples so that the LoDpi physical sizes match the HiDpi, making them even less readable.) Turning this on disables the font scaling done for non-aware apps on HiDpi screens. Brad S., yes the software is old, but they still sell it! CS6 clearly has a bug in that it reports being DpiAware when it very evidently is not. If nothing else, Adobe could fix that flag in their CS6 applications so that this work-around to compensate for their error was no longer needed.

Thank you so much for this fix. Like many here, purchased a new laptop for the mobility and the only other fix was carry an additional monitor with me to do my work, not very mobile at all!

Don’t know if you are still responding to the threadMost of my programs are CS6, but Dreamweaver is 5.5. When applying the same fix I get an error missing mfc90u.dll, suggesting I reinstall DW. If I take the created manifest file away DW 5.5 opens but extremely small, so back to square one with DW.

Extremely happy all others are working. “CC” You should not need to use this for CC. There is setting in preferences to do this from Adobe. — “Living with HiDPI” I have been on HiDPI for over a year now and have not encountered too many problems. Definitely none that keep me from doing what I want to do. Moving forward, all new apps will scale properly. The only thing that you will be waiting for is Legacy application support.

Unfortunately I don’t think it is going to come from Adobe, but others have already updated. Windows 10 has already taken some big steps to ease this transition. — “Donations” I have a PayPal donation widget on the sidebar. Please do not feel obligated to donate.

The fact that I could help is thanks enough. — “Thank you!” Thanks again for all of the kind words. — “Questions & Troubleshooting” I feel like a lot of the same questions are being asked So I will post this again.

All of the Manifest files are exactly the same. The only thing that is different is the file name.

This is what it should look like in the application folder: photoshop.exe photoshop.exe.manifest — If you are having issues, try the following: 1) Make sure you have extensions showing. 2) Make sure you are running everything as administrator. 3) Try toggling on/off the “Disable display scaling on high DPI settings” under the apps Compatibility settings. 4) Restart the system after the adjustments. 5) Make sure your system is completely up to date through ‘Windows Update’. — If everything above was done and double checked. The issue is most likely with the RegEdit portions.

Either your adjustments are incorrect or not sticking. — To be 100% certain that the issue is with the ‘manifest’ file.

Remove or rename it (the.manifest file) in the app folder and launch the application. 1) If the app launches properly. There is something wrong with the external manifest procedure. 2) If the app runs the same error as with the manifest file. There is something wrong with your applications install. Ok, so apparently it stripped the xml from my previous comment. Reposting: For those of you using OLDER VERSIONS of photoshop, you will need to edit the manifest file.

I also got the “Runtime Error” – “The Application tried to load the C runtime incorrectly.” dialog when trying to start the program with the manifest. I’m using Photoshop CS3 (you can pry it from my cold, dead hands). The problem is that it’s using version 8 of the C runtime, whereas newer versions of photoshop use Version 9, which is specificed in Dan’s manifest file. To fix this problem, edit the manifest file that Dan posted. In the second “dependency” section, change the following values, and save the manifest when you’re done: name=”Microsoft.VC80.CRT” version=”8.0.50727.42″ processorArchitecture=”x86″ Hope that helps.

Thank you so much for this fix. In case some people are wondering, I dropped the manifest files into both my 64 and 32-bit folders (just in case). Here are the locations for the four programs. Adobe Illustrator: 32-bit: C: Program Files (x86) Adobe Adobe Illustrator CS6 Support Files Contents 64-bit: C: Program Files Adobe Adobe Illustrator CS6 (64 Bit) Support Files Contents Windows Adobe Photoshop 32-bit: C: Program Files (x86) Adobe Adobe Photoshop CS6 64-bit: C: Program Files Adobe Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit) Adobe Fireworks: 32-bit: C: Program Files (x86) Adobe Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 64-bit: n/a Adobe Dreamweaver: 32-bit: C: Program Files (x86) Adobe Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 64-bit: n/a.

You, sir, are a miracle worker. I have an additional question. I just bought 7000 series inspiron and the resolution is 3840 x 2160.

Your solution made it possible to read the menu in PS5 but I’m noticing the the tools are off their mark. For example, I’m using the eraser tool and there’s a line I want to clean up. So placing the eraser right where I want to start erasing, it’s actually erasing a few millimeters to the left. It’s like the tool thinks its placed slightly left of where it actually is. Any thoughts on how I might fix this? This fix worked great for photoshop, but I was having problems getting it to work on Illustrator. After several tries using the Illustrator.exe.manifest file, I just copied the photoshop.exe.manifest file to a Notepad file and called it: illustrator.exe.manifest Then looking where to place it was also tricky.

I finally found similar application files as shown in the photoshop example under the following for Adobe Illustrator: OS (C): Program Files Adobe Adobe Illustrator Support Files Contents Windows I placed the (illustrator.exe.manifest ) notepad file in the Windows file ( you will see many files with the.dll extension there) and opened up Adobe Illustrator. Now both Photoshop and Illustrator are viewable and much more easy to work with. I hope this helps others to use this very helpful solution. @A Jha I wonder if you have left the screen elements all the same size as I wrote above your comment? This process will not work if the “Change the size of all items” are left in the small end of the slider.

If you move it to the middle or to the right then it works. As I see it, it is a way of making these applications to honor the changed size of screen items which they otherwise ignore. I have since written a follow up post to make this point clear: The credit for this solution still belongs to Dan Antonelli, thank you. It’s been an interesting last few days trying to setup a new laptop to be able to function while navigating Windows 8.1 for the first time. Last night I finally installed part of my CS4 suite and was of course a bit shocked to see what Photoshop looked like on a 15.6″ 4k display!

Finding this solution this morning was exciting as it’s very simple. I quickly applied the fix to Photoshop (both x86 and 64 bit) as well as Dreamweaver. I decided to give it a try before going further. Both Photoshop versions popped up a box saying “The program can’t start because MSVCP80.DLL is missing from your computer. Please reinstall your” The same occurred with Dreamweaver except the file was MFC80U.DLL I went back into one of the Photoshop installations and renamed photoshop.exe.manifest to “photoshop.exe.txt” to take it out of play.

Photoshop came up fine but of course in it’s original configuration. I sure hope I can make this work! @Dan Antonelli, I have a different problem which has been plaguing me for quite some time.

When I start Firefox with the Antonelli patch it works like a charm, everything is legible. But when Firefox starts after clicking on a link, say in an email message, it comes up with tiny characters totally ignoring the patch. What is different in the starting of the application when I click on the FF icon or on a link? Can this be fixed, this is a curiosity question since I can start FF first and then click on a link which opens in the already running application. Hello, I am trying to do the manifest hack on my Thinkpad 8 Tablet. I have Photoshop CS6 and yesterday, it failed on Win 8.1 Pro (32bit). I had the “incorrect Side-by-Side configuration” error.

When I deleted the manifest file, Photoshop worked. Today, I updated to Windows 10 and tried everything again and I always get the same error. My procedrue was: 1. Install Photoshop CS6 (trial) 2.

Open Regestry and create the “PreferExternalManifest” DOWRD 32 3. Change Value to 1 Decimal 4. Create photoshop.exe.manifest in Editor 5. Paste the text from Manifest.txt 6. Save as photoshop.exe.manifest (as MANIFEST file, not.txt) 7.

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Copy to C: Programs Adobe Photoshop CS6 I repeated every step and I don’t know, what is wrong. (I might have an effect but I can’t imagine: I use German Photoshop and Windows) Please help me 🙂 It would be soooo nice if it would work!!! I ended up buying another computer just for Photoshop because I could not use my $2000 32″ UHD monitor with it and my regular QHD second monitor I use for most things. Even with 32″ and 200% sizing, the menus in Photoshop were too tiny to see unless I sat 12-18″ from my monitor. I’ve searched for a solution for about a year, and all Adobe had to tell me was “We’re at the mercy of Microsoft. They don’t do things like Apple.

Whine, whine, whine.” I’m running Windows 10 with dual monitors running PS CC 2015, and it looks great even when parts of PS are on both monitors at the same time. Again, THANK YOU!!!! Absolutely fantastic! Thanks so much!

I had to use a combination of David Jones’ and Tom’s help above, changing to x86 or amd64 depending on which version of PS I wanted to run, and Tom’s code for the older CS4: name=”Microsoft.VC80.CRT” version=”8.0.50727.42″ processorArchitecture=”x86″ but can now confirm that this works on PS CS4 on Windows 10 in 32 and 64 bit! Quality of the GUI is surprisingly good as well – can hardly notice it’s not native. Is there any possibility of getting this to work for Lightroom as well? I’m still using Lightroom 3 which also suffers from a tiny GUI under high dpi. I’ve put a renamed manifest next to the lightroom.exe, but it seems to ignore it. It just runs absolutely as normal – not crashing nor upsizing the GUI. Your advice has literally just set me on the trail to hopefully do very well in my 3rd year of architecture school.

My parents just bought me a laptop with ultra hd so i could use software like 3ds max to their full potential, but all the icons were not showing correctly and the interfaces of the apps were all wrong. I looked at this post over and over for about a day, and your final piece of advice about the compatibility settings really helped. THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!! ABSOLUTE LIFE SAVER!

It did not work for me, but I noticed you placed it in your cs6. I am now doing the cc, not because I wanted to I might add, I loved the cs5.5. I am running windows 7 – guess I’m the type who’d rather do than stop and re-learn, i.e. Instead of working & getting something accomplished I had to research this for several hours.still didn’t work.

But Thank You very much for keeping your ear to the pavement and responding to the masses who are going blind from that adobe squint lol. But seriously thank you. I really enjoyed a couple of the tuts that I saw that you did. Why should you use this solution witch works wonderful for Bridge CC also for Photoshop CC? Photoshop CC has the possibility to scale if you look under Edit Preferences Experimental features and then click “Scale UI 200%Windows only”.

I have also tried the “manifest” methode, but it is a matter of taste. 200% from Adobe itself is bigger somewhat more to my liking. For Bridge the photoshop.exe.manifest or the Bridge.exe.manifest as you have to change the name methode works wonders for me. I could not find a way to scale Bridge up within Adobe. Adobe is not the only company that walks behind, I use Nik software as a plugin and could not scale it up, not even with this wonderful solution. Thank You for this solution which is so helpful for a lot of people.

Unfortunately Im unable to get it to work on Win7 (64) for Photoshop CS5 (64). Tried it for hours, several times: – did everything as admin (regedit, notepad respectively editor) – created a new file and pasting the text in – copied and used You`r file instead – right folder and exactly the same name – photoshop.exe.manifest is listed dirctly under Photoshop.exe and file-type is shown as “MANIFEST-file” As some others too, trying to start Photoshop I only get the message: “The system could not find the specified file” renaming or removing the photoshop.exe.manifest (or also Photoshop.exe.manifest) doesn`t change anything (still the same message). When Removing the regedit entry Photoshop is working as usual (with the small menue) Anything left I could try out? The fix worked perfectly for DreamWeaver CS6 and MS Remote Desktop Connection.

For information: 1. With CS6, the fix worked only after rebooting.

The fix not only improved readability but also sorted wonky fonts and misplaced development windows. For RDP, the fix worked immediately, without rebooting. The URLs in the example DW manifest file return the message “The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.” I’m most grateful! Dan, thank you. I received my new dell xps 15 (9550) I-7 6th generation processor with 4k display several days ago. It is a beautiful system but I was about to either buy a replacement display panel that is FHD or buy a new system because the xps 15 as is had tiny ants UI on MT4 app. After hacking using your manifest file, the MT4 is now usable.

Thank you, thank you. I fully endorse your explanation of the fix. There was a comment by someone among these posts that there was another site that posted a similar fix. I visited that site. I tell you and anyone else who are fortunate enough to come to your site that you are the guru. I am no technical person and I did not understand the “fix” at the other website.

Bottom line is you made the process of the “fix” simple and easily understood. Dan, thank you. I received my new dell xps 15 (9550) I-7 6th generation processor with 4k display several days ago. It is a beautiful system but I was about to either buy a replacement display panel that is FHD or buy a new system because the xps 15 as is had tiny ants UI on MT4 app. After hacking using your manifest file, the MT4 is now usable. Thank you, thank you. I fully endorse your explanation of the fix.

There was a comment by someone among these posts that there was another site that posted a similar fix. I visited that site. I tell you and anyone else who is fortunate enough to come to your site that you are the guru.

I am no technical person and I did not understand the “fix” at the other website. Bottom line is you made the process of the “fix” simple and easily understood. Thanks for the fix, it worked great on one of my simulation applications. However when I tried to do the exact same thing for another application it did not work and it brought up error 0cx000007b: “The application was unable to start correctly ” I noticed that the application that worked was a 64-bit application while this one is a 32-bit application. Is there any fix for this please?

Also, do I need to create a manifest file for all the applications in the installation folder of the app or just one manifest file for the main application? Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂!

I have Windows 10 on a Surface Book. When i try this technique using Adobe Edge Animate i get the System Error: “The program can’t start because libcef.dll is missing from your computer.

Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.” Does anyone have advice as to how to fix this? Edge is basically unusable with the ant sized interface. I can’t believe Adobe hasn’t addressed this issue across all of their applicationsIt’s almost 2016. Other details: – i’m renaming the file to “edgeanimate.exe.manifest” and putting it in the same folder as EdgeAnimate.exe – i’m using CC 2015 Thank you. Wow, thanks beyond thanks. I pitched 5 bucks your way thru donation. Adobe should be paying you much more!

God bless you and those who put such effort into helping to solve these problems including making the instructions so crystal clear. Why the heck Adobe doesn’t appear to have a straight forward posted solution to solve this so users have a decent out of the box experience is beyond me It is one reason I refuse currently to pay the upgrade fees to move to CC. I tried the demo. And based on what I need as a user, I was more discouraged than impressed. Thanks, Dan, for a handy fix. It worked on all my Adobe apps (Win 10, Surface Pro 4, Adobe CS6). One problem that persists is that when opening an Adobe file from within another program, e.g.

From within Firefox, the launched program does not seem to know about the manifest. If I open the Adobe app first, then click on the link in Firefox, it will open in the already opened Adobe app, and everything is fine. It also happens when Adobe Acrobat is launched from my scanner after scanning a document. Is there a fix for that? For those posters having difficulty getting this to work, here are some tips: 1) in regedit, don’t worry if HEX reverts back to DEC. The value 1 is the same in both bases.

2) To locate the folder where the.exe.manifest file should be placed, right-click on the shortcut to the application and select “open containing folder” or “open file location” or the equivalent. Then click once on the.exe file that is highlighted and copy the name to the clipboard. Then copy the manifest file to that folder and change its name with the one you copied to the clipboard. 3) Be sure you have file extension visibility turned on. If not, you may be working with photoshop.exe.manifest.txt and it will appear in the File Explorer as photoshop.exe.manifest instead. (Turn on extension visibility in File Explorer’s “options” dialog.

Uncheck the option to hide known extension types.). Just purchased a new Asus laptop.

I use Adobe CS6. Followed steps and suggestions from Scott about location for manifest files.

Worked and Adobe program interface is now at a reasonable size however screen display is mildly fuzzy. Very frustrating. My old Vaio was pretty crystal sharp, just slow. If I sign up for Adobe CC will the programs then be clear?

Should I just buy a new monitor to extend the laptop desktop that is large so I have a clear work space? I’ve tried adjusting the laptop monitor resolution but that hasn’t helped.

Thanks for any help and suggestions! Using Adobe Photoshop Elements (11), had the problem with it not starting due to “The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000007b).” @Erik All I did to make it work is modify the line in the manifest file “processorArchitecture=”amd64” to “x86” and now everything works fine. So again change the “amd64” to “x86” and you should be good. This was the ticket for me too! Thanks a bunch for that.

I actually changed it to “.” like the other one and it works. Perhaps the reference file could be updated? Now just to make it work when launched from the launcher (works if launched directly, but when launched from the launcher, it seems to be ignoring the app menifest). Hi, I’ve been struggling to sort this out with my new HP laptop (running Windows 10) and Adobe CS4 since last night. I was so excited when I saw this solution (thanks for posting it!), but can’t get it to work. I’ve followed all the instructions carefully but as soon as I put the photoshop.manifest.exe into the same location as the executable file and try to run the software I’m told ‘msvcp80.dll is missing from your computer’.

I’ve tried reinstalling the CS4 software but to no avail. I can see a few other people have had similar issues. Is there a solution? Finally got this to work on CS3 using TabbyPaw’s help and trying a few tweaks. First of all, you need to download the.manifest files for your particular program that Dan provides above in the link. You should open them in a plain text editor like Notepad for windows.

Make the adjustments she recommends in the second dependency but TYPE them DO NOT PASTE changing to these name=”Microsoft.VC80.CRT” version=”8.0.50727.42″ processorArchitecture=”x86″ I have worked with XML type files as a novice and realized that copy/paste and other similar functions actually add formatting from the original source that you may not be able to see but is there and causes conflicts. So typing them is a simple solution that resolves that issue. The next part is VERY IMPORTANT as well.

When you save the file, you need to make sure you save it as “All Files” with a dropdown below it changed to “UTF-8” The default for my system was.txt and below that was ANSI. I don’t know the technical reason but a few people pointed that out in various ways in their comments. Otherwise, follow Dan’s other instructions and things will hopefully work for you. By the way, I’d assume that many of the other conflicts people are experiencing with other versions could be some form of the copy/paste issue and/or the “All Files”/UTF-8 issue.

If you are using a more updated version than CS3 you likely don’t need to make the changes above, but do need to make sure about the “all files”/utf-8 parts. Hope this helps! First of all thanks for the solution as this seems to be the only feasible solution around. Although it’s a great help for painting purposes in Photoshop it’s less usable for precise drawing work. I’m using an Alienware 17R3 with Nvidia Graphics card 980M and so the native screen resolution is 3840 x 2160 (4K) with the recommended Display Scale Setting by WinXpro of 250% Dan’s solution worked but the menus were slightly to big in Photoshop CC 14.2.1 so reducing the scale in Display Settings (right click on desktop) to 200% gave an almost perfect result not only in Photoshop but in the OS overall. There is an issue with the brush contour though.

The brush contour is the brush shape you can see when you select a brush and your pointer changes into the shape of the brush. Some people have set up their brush contour as a cross or pixelpoint but for paint drawing purposes brush shape and size visual representation is more comfortable. The issue that appears is that with Dan’s solution the actual brush size is bigger as soon as you start painting drawing and not corresponding with the brush contour. This is not much of an issue with painting but it is an issue if you want to draw precise (technical drawing, placing symbols, line thickness). So to maintain a fluent work pipeline between different programs (some of them had the same scale issue) I regretfully had to remove Dan’s solution and downgrade my screen resolution to 2048 x 1152 where the brush contour issue disappeared and menu size appeared comfortable. It’s a shame though as using my system like this is like ‘driving’ an airplane! In windows 10, I tried this but got a mfu90u.dll file is missing error.

I DID fix it accidentally a much better, way, though. Using Windows 10, Yoga Pro 3, and Dell 24in. (1920X1200) external monitor.

I simply made the external monitor my main/primary display. That fixed everything automatically!!! The menus are the right size now on BOTH the laptop screen and the external monitor.

My settings are: Yoga – resolution 2136X1200, app size 150% Dell – resolution 1920×1200 (native) app size 100% (I rebooted after changing the settings, but I’m not sure if that’s necessary.) This fixed other blurry text issues in other programs, too, like Firefox and Thunderbird which are now pin sharp. You may need the manifest method if you use the laptop much without the external monitor, which I rarely do.

I really hate to sound stupid — but, should my Adobe Presenter.exe.manifest file only contain the word “false” — or all of the text in the manifest file that Dan lists? Are there two separate files? One with all of the text from the manifest file and one that only says “false?” I tried it copying all of the text from the manifest file – renaming it as Adobe Presenter.exe.manifest and saving it as “all files” UTF-8. I copied it to the Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Adobe Presenter 11.o folder. It didn’t change any of the sizes of the dialog boxes that appear when I’m using Adobe Presenter as an add-in with PowerPoint 13 (32 bit).

I’m using a Surface Pro 4, running Windows 10. I am an engineering student who recently purchased a Surface Book (Windows 10). Previously I was able to get the manifest fix to work, but now when I apply the fix the Adobe splash logo shows up at the larger, scaled size then immediately reverts to the smaller size. Does anyone have any insight into this issue? It seems that the manifest file is somehow being overridden.

(Note that I have tried with in various compatibility modes & admin mode, with the “disable scaling” box unchecked.) Best regards, Justin. Can anyone answer this for me? Should my Adobe Presenter.exe.manifest file only contain the word “false” — or all of the text in the manifest file that Dan lists? In the example files above, where Dan says: “Here are the files I created for my machine (Right-click and save to use on your machine): photoshop.exe.manifest fireworks.exe.manifest illustrator.exe.manifest dreamweaver.exe.manifest” All of these examples – the text inside the file only says false.

Are there two separate files? One with all of the text from the manifest file and one that only says “false?” I tried it copying all of the text from the manifest file – renaming it as Adobe Presenter.exe.manifest and saving it as “all files” UTF-8. I copied it to the Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Adobe Presenter 11.o folder. It didn’t change any of the sizes of the dialog boxes that appear when I’m using Adobe Presenter as an add-in with PowerPoint 13 (32 bit). I’m using a Surface Pro 4, running Windows 10 I’d really appreciate it if someone could clarify this for me.

Trying to read those tiny tiny boxes is making me crazy! For anyone having problems this may help, I had to change one line in the manifest file.

I changed the following”processorArchitecture=”amd64″” to “processorArchitecture=”x86”. I could not get it to work until I did this because I’m not running an AMD processor. Also make sure your file is saved as a “.MANIFEST” file and not a “.txt” file. Even though you have “.manifest” in the name does not mean that it’s saved as a manifest file. Just right click it and then select properties to see the file type.

My laptop is a Lenovo Y50 with an intel i7 running windows 10. Hi Dan, really appreciate that you are trying to help with this fix! I have implemented your solution, photoshop appears normal again, but I cannot get Illustrator to display correctly.

Lenovo Yoga 900 running Windows 10 Running CS6 versions of ill, photo The problem that I am having with illustrator is that the screen has sized itself to the upper left hand corner, so I have most of the tool bar, but not all, and am missing the whole right side of the screen – layers, etc. I also am not able to use the hand to move my content around and when I insert a cursor into a document for type, its tiny! And the text is messed up. Totally confused on this!

I tried what another user tried and took the photoshop manifest file and named is illustrator.exe.manifest.The location of the manifest files for both apps is Program Files Adobe, then at the application level under the exe. I have a design deadline and am super frustrated. Can you help? Hey, many thanks I wouldn’t have managed to work it out without your help!! It worked for Photoshop cc 2015 much easily compared to Bridge (cc 64bit) in which I couldn’t figure out how to do it but finally it worked there too. I want to let anyone who face difficulties fixing his Adobe Bridge scaling know what I did exactly: I just took the (previously downloaded -from here-) txt file - photoshop.exe.manifest and renamed it as bridge.exe.manifest before placing it in the same folder as our executable i.e. C/program files/adobe/bridge cc (64) Be sure that when you right click the txt file after selecting properties what you see in the Type of file row is: MANIFEST File (.manifest) and not Text Document (.txt) before placing it in the same folder as your executable.

Dan, Your solution was the only one available after many hours of searching on the web. Thanks for the solution.

I’m not sure of all the other comments listed above for different application but this is the only solution that worked for me across multiple applications – Microsoft Outlook included. The problem originally surfaced for me after purchasing a new Dell Laptop with a high resolution monitor (3840×2160). Was using Win8.1 and a Lacerte Tax program from Intuit with versions dating back to 2010. This was the initial application but it also impacted Outlook, Google Toolbar, and others. All the MS articles only address general features for all applications at the display or OS level. Your solution fixed problems with specific applications when the text was microscopic.

The same problem existed in Windows 10 for the Lacerte program and your solution still works. As Dan reported some time ago it is a good idea setting up an EnableExternalManifest.reg file with a text editor. It contains the following lines: ———————————————————————— Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00; enable external manifest file to support hi-res monitor by the application,; e.g. PhotShop,; see; 2016-03-30 HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion SideBySide “PreferExternalManifest”=dword:00000001 ———————————————————————— Double clicking on the reg file enters the stuff into the registry.

And put aside a manifest file which you can copy and then rename to application-name.exe.manifest. “Fiona March 30, 2016 at 10:52 am Your solution worked perfectly until windows 10 updated! Now I’m back to an interface for ants! Any ideas?”. update – RESOLVED. 01/04/16 – The Windows 10 forced update deleted / removed the Regedit! I repeated your step 1 and it works perfectly again!

Many, many thanks for this fix. You have been so very helpful. Serato told me “Please understand that we are working hard on an improved GUI for Serato DJ, but be aware that I can’t provide a date or timeframe.”. I think they could start by employing you!!

I can’t seem to get this to work for 3ds Max 2015. I dropped the Photoshop manifest file in my CS6 folder and everything worked great. However, putting it in the Max folder nothing. I’m dropping it here – C: Program Files Autodesk 3ds Max 2015 and renaming original Photoshop manifest file to “3dsmax.exe.manifest”.

I found your page through a 3ds Max community where some of those members have had success with your fix. However, I am running into some trouble, it seems. Any pointers? Am I supposed to edit any of the contents of the manifest file or just the title?

Any and all help is appreciated.

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