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Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi everybody,

I am working on a new laptop for a week now which has a 2.560 x 1.440 Pixel resolution. I am using Qlik View Personal Edition 12.0.20100.0 SR2 on Windows 10 where display scaling is set to 200%.

With this high-resolution display the charts, fonts and most other objects in Qlik View documents are scaled correctly. However, the icons in the menu and task bar are tiny. Also the table structure view is extremely small and barely visible.

Are there any solutions for this?

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

Gysbert_Wassenaar — Fri, 06 May 2016 16:33:52 GMT

Change the screen resolution setting. Or connect an external monitor with a decent screen size. 25" is a nice size for 2560x1440.

Other than that, no.

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

Fri, 06 May 2016 16:52:56 GMT

The screen resolution is not a problem since most of the graphical parts of QlikView are scaled correctly. It seems as if the developers just have forgotten the icons and the table structure view...

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

bonotelscot — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 07:22:03 GMT

Any solutions to this? Changing my screen resolution is not an option. QlikView should really support the Windows 10 scaling functionality. Text is fine but the icons are tiny.

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:13:58 GMT

I have exactly same problem, no one seems to have a solution (problem is also present in other applications).

This is important as it renders the UI difficult to use.

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

suraj_spins — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:26:08 GMT

I have the same problem. Any resolutions please?

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

suepenick — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 21:23:49 GMT

I have been having the same problem. It is a windows 10 compatibility issue. Qlik has not addressed this but must quickly - you can't even see the icons they are so small. funny the book mark tool bar has bigger text - but it is so small (width) you can't read the book mark names. this is not something all the users can solve with an extension. Qlik needs to put the smartest people they have on this as it is going to lower the overall satisfaction rating from their users. We are on V11xx will be moving to 12 so it is just not a qlikview 12 issue - it is in the core Qlik software.

I believe microsoft deals with this with a manifest file.

qlik needs to do something.

For Now: This is a DPI scaling issue. Most software was designed in lower resolution so all the icons for the tool bars are tiny in the new HD resolution hardware. I have this experience with alot of software I use. This is my work around:

In the windows10 search box type the name of your software, right click on the search result, then choose select Open file location. Right click on that file select Properties; select the compatibility tab, in the settings group check override high DPI scaling behavior. Then inside the software when you open it everything will seem really big, so go to your view \ zoom setting and select like 75%. Note the tool bars and icons are the normal 100% while the program info will be at 75% and everything will look way better.

It is a work around at best, but better than not being able to see any of the icons on the tool bars at all!

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

swegener — Tue, 21 May 2019 16:25:56 GMT

I faced the same issue on Windows 10. The following compatibility setting already did the job. No try and error with scaling percentages necessary.

But thanks for the hint to this approach.

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

suepenick — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:17:36 GMT

Just upgraded to vs12. Had to do the override on the dpi setting again...so not fixed in Version12

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

Colin-Albert — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:18:55 GMT

Here are the screen-shots in English in case your German is not too good 🙂

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

praijmakers — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:35:25 GMT

Hello,

We have the same problem with scalability with one of or large high resolution monitors. So i did the "High DPI scaling override" trick and it works. But now I have encountered another issue. We have in our qlik application multiple buttons which trigger macro's that open and adjust excel files.

The macro uses:

Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")

etc.

But the weird thing is that now the excel document that is being opened has al messed up scaling issues. Below a small example. The rows and collumns become way to large but also in the general excel interface there are scale issues.

When i open the same excel file manually there are no issues. So it seems qlikview is transferring its "High DPI scaling override" setting to excel when we trigger it via macro.

Does anybody know a possible solution to this? (opening excel via macro is a must, because we add and alter things in the excel file automatically)

Best regards

Peter

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

suepenick — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:47:31 GMT

Are you on the 64 bit Excel?

We are finding the 64 bit version of Excel offers multiple issues that can't seem to be resolved. (we use office 365 click to run version)

So you have to do a complete uninstall of office 365 and reinstall the 32 bit version. This may just clear up all those issues.

it did for me. Also clears the nprinting issues.

Re: Problem with icon-size on high-dpi Screen in QlikView Desktop.

gksmithlcw — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:44:27 GMT

Go raibh mile maith agat!