I run an instance of Windows Server 2016 Standard inside a Hyper-V VM. All scaling, fonts and resolution looks fine across all apps, with 1 exception: Google Chrome's file browser dialog: the displayed files look TINY as you can see here:
In the screenshot above, the left side shows the file-open or "browse for files" dialog in Chrome, opened by clicking an <input type='file'> button. The font of the available files looks tiny. The right side is a standard windows explorer (on the same VM - not on my host) and the fonts are correct.
The version of Chrome running on the VM is 109.0.5414.120 (Official Build) (64-bit). On my host OS (Win11) I do run modified scaling, and occasionally I have to modify the properties of an EXE to allow the application to drive the scaling, but this problem is inside a VM in which all other apps and fonts look perfect.
Many windows apps allow this sort of thing to be solved by going into Properties->Compatibility->Change high DPI setting thusly:
...but I couldn't get to this either on the Chrome.exe nor the windows explorer exe. And in any case, everything in Chrome looks fine except for that file browser dialog.
How can I fix this?
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.The path it shows at the top of the dialog exists and I tried to open up permissions up and down the path, still get the same error. Totally stuck.chkdskcan fix something. If not, add an image for the Properties of the problem folder, Security tab. Also of the Advanced dialog.Properties -> Securityand opened up permissions wide on a number of folders in the tree/chain, then rebooted. Still no luck. Haven't run chkdsk yet but I'm not sure how that can help with a permissions issue.