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Windows 10 home 1909

VirtualBox 6.1.6 + latest extensions

Display settings
Laptop - Main Display
Scale and Layout 150%
Res 1920x1080 (recommended)

Ext Monitors
Scale and Layout 100%
Res 1920x1080 (recommended)

Tried to change the compatibility mode to Windows 8, as per the results from the compatibility troubleshooter.

I believe this issue is arounf the High DPI feature as did not experience this on Windows 7 or OSX.

Cannot upload the screenshots:
The file is too big, maximum allowed size is 256 KiB.

evets wrote:Cannot upload the screenshots:

Crop & resize. Looks like we'll need to see what you are talking about.

Running a guest or the main Virtualbox window in compatibility mode has never been needed.

Please simplify the logs. Start the guest from full normal shutdown, not save-state. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the guest from within the guest OS if possible. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the guest with the Power Off option set.

Right-click the guest in the main Virtualbox window's guest list, choose Show Log. Save the far left tab's log, zip it, and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab.

OK sure will look into that, and update the message later.

Added one of the screenshots of a fresh install as had to rebuild my laptop a 3rd time, one from Lenovo support and clean install from MS support.

Note, when I turn on High contrast mode all the text in the right window pane disappears apart from the URL

I don't see anything in this screenshot indicating a problem. That's a fresh Virtualbox with no guests loaded yet.

You can load more screenshots, three per post, and multiple posts if necessary.

I would ask you to make a full-description post next, so we don't have your problem com out by drips. That will get old fast.

OK sure, and I agree. I initially write out everything, when I first created the posted and then kept getting error messages when try to post and the message disappear.

Finally it did tell I could not post files larger than 2MB.

I will set it up again and provide more details instructions.

UPDATE

Removed the zip file from first post as not needed.

Please note the laptop only recently was reimaged with a clean install on Windows 10 Home, as some other issues that the MS support requested I do.

I have 3 VM images, so capture the images and logs from a fresh start of both showing the issue with the small fonts and icons in the menu bars, and also when I click the X to close.

Another image is when I tried to run CentOS image and it gave me an error message. Do not worry about that, just the font size of the popup.

I still believe this to be an issue with the High DPI feature. From what Ibow understand MS has made a bit of a mess of this and keep rolling out updates to try and fix it. But then again I may be way off track.

Anyone got any ideas about this please?

Now that I look at your screenshot again I see that the writing in the main Virtualbox window is small. Go to the Virtualbox start icon, right-click, Compatibility tab, Change HiDPI settings, try various checkmarks in that tab. Perhaps 'Override high-DPI scaling behavior' first?

Hi Thanks for the reply and comments.

I have already tried all these settings, spent a number of days with MS support, online. All of them basically ran through the same things as the previous one, uninstall the video drivers. Not of them actually gave the options you mention, took a you tube video I stumbled across which explained the High DPI, then found a few tutorials about the compatibility mode.

Now running VM ware, without the same issue, it does though have its own issues though after using VB for so many years.