I just had the same issue and "Option three" (see below) from sevenforums.com has helped me. I was not able to set the required setting on an application run from a remote server in the properties dialog.
Add to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
and/or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
a new "String Value".
Change the name to the full path of your application (ie \\server\dir\app.exe
or c:\dir\app.exe
) and set "Value data" according to these options (multiple settings are possible and to be separated with space):
# Compatibility Mode Data Value
Windows 95 WIN95
Windows 98 / Windows Me WIN98
Windows NT 4.0 (SP 5) NT4SP5
Windows 2000 WIN2000
Windows XP (SP 2) WINXPSP2
Windows XP (SP 3) WINXPSP3
Windows Server 2003 (SP 1) WINSRV03SP1
Windows Server 2008 (SP 1) WINSRV08SP1
Windows Vista VISTARTM
Windows Vista (SP 1) VISTASP1
Windows Vista (SPk 2) VISTASP2
Windows 7 WIN7RTM
#Settings Data Value
Run in 256 colors 256Color
Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution 640x480
Disable visual themes DISABLETHEMES
Disable desktop composition DISABLEDWM
Disable display scaling on
high DPI settings HIGHDPIAWARE
Run this program as Admin RUNASADMIN
With these settings, I was able to run my application like that:
Name: \\server\dir\app.exe
Value Data: DISABLETHEMES HIGHDPIAWARE RUNASADMIN