Windows 7 Incorrect Scaling

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Published on 2010-07-12T15:55:46Z Indexed on 2012/12/14 5:08 UTC
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I ran into a problem the second after installing Windows 7 a few months ago, but it only affected a few applications at the time, so I ignored it. Now an increasing number of applications behave the same way and it's annoying. The DPI settings seem to have an issue as can be seen below:

Bad

The same application should look like this:

Good

The DPI is set to 100% (I tried changing it but it had no effect). I think perhaps the Regional / Language settings have something to do with it but I can't turn it off to English only.

Any ideas?

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