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Notes from newly installing windows 8.1
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Win81VMWareFusion.md

My notes on setting up Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and Windows 8.1 in VMWare Fusion 7 on a MacBook Pro 13".

VMWare Fusion 7

  • Enable "Use full resolution for retina display"
  • Disable VMWare "Automatically adjust user interface size in the virtual machine"
  • Turn off mirrored shared folders

Windows 8.1

  • VMWare doesn't tell Windows that this is a high PPI display (metro UI has tiny text), so we have to do this in the registry...
    • Create a new string value at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop called LogicalDPIOverride, set the value to 2
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