A couple of days ago, I posted about "Why I won't use Windows Vista Mail." Basically, the reason was because it didn't include a manifest to say it was "high DPI aware", and there was no way to set those compatibility properties (that would force it to be marked as "high DPI aware") from explorer, because apparently it was "part of this version of Windows."
If you don't remember, I posted this screen shot of the "Inbox" and "Outbox" folders. Notice the blurring:
Well, a little bit of investigation and I figured out how to force it. All you need to do is add a new value to the following registry key:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
The name of the value should be the full path and file name of the executable, in our case it's "C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\WinMail.exe" and set the value to "HIGHDPIAWARE". You've probably already got a couple of entries in there to help you figure it out :)
After that, simply start up Windows Mail, and you've got it!! The only problem is that it doesn't scale the icons, but that's a minor issue (and most "high DPI aware" apps don't do that anyway - bring on the vector bitmaps, I say!)
