Vista - Blurry Applications

I have a new Vista PC. Everything's working fine, but I noticed that some
dialogs and applications are very blurry. It's not just the fonts, the whole
applications are. This only affects a few apps - namely Windows Live
Messenger and Napster.
The video card is a GeForce 7300 SE. Aero and Flip 3D work fine, so I don't
think that's the problem. WLM and Napster seem very big as well, as if it's
running at a lower resolution than the rest of Vista.
Does anyone know what's causing this?

right click on desktop -> properties -> adjust font size (dpi) -> custom
dpi -> change 'use windows xp style dpi scaling'

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"Richard John" <RichardJohn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F3DAA2D8-38A1-471F-B3D5-A5A19F4E2599@microsoft.com...
> I'm almost certain now that the problem apps are rnning at a lower
> resolution
> to the rest of Windows. Looks like it's 800x600!
>
> "Richard John" wrote:
>
>> I have a new Vista PC. Everything's working fine, but I noticed that some
>> dialogs and applications are very blurry. It's not just the fonts, the
>> whole
>> applications are. This only affects a few apps - namely Windows Live
>> Messenger and Napster.
>> The video card is a GeForce 7300 SE. Aero and Flip 3D work fine, so I
>> don't
>> think that's the problem. WLM and Napster seem very big as well, as if
>> it's
>> running at a lower resolution than the rest of Vista.
>> Does anyone know what's causing this?

Right click on the shortcut of exe file. Left click on properties. Click on
the "Compatibility" tab. Normally nothing is checked. Do you by chance have
"Run in 640x480 screen resolution" checked?

"Richard John" <RichardJohn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F3DAA2D8-38A1-471F-B3D5-A5A19F4E2599@microsoft.com...
> I'm almost certain now that the problem apps are rnning at a lower
> resolution
> to the rest of Windows. Looks like it's 800x600!
>
> "Richard John" wrote:
>
>> I have a new Vista PC. Everything's working fine, but I noticed that some
>> dialogs and applications are very blurry. It's not just the fonts, the
>> whole
>> applications are. This only affects a few apps - namely Windows Live
>> Messenger and Napster.
>> The video card is a GeForce 7300 SE. Aero and Flip 3D work fine, so I
>> don't
>> think that's the problem. WLM and Napster seem very big as well, as if
>> it's
>> running at a lower resolution than the rest of Vista.
>> Does anyone know what's causing this?