Hi

Can you please help me with the issue i am facing? 

The screen resolution in WinPE is very high, the drop down values in MDT wizard are extremely small and almost unreadable. I see a similar question posted on technet for screen resolution in WinPE 4.0 but I am unable to fix it.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/66bd25d3-cc37-4841-be38-3f427db36b57/winpe-screen-resolution-problem-no-display-signal-out-of-range?forum=w7itproinstall

The HTA screen looks OK but the when you select the drop down, the values are extremely small. 

I also referred to the article from Johan
http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/51/Setting-screen-resolution-in-WinPE-4-0.aspx

Below is my setup:

1. MDT 2013
2. Windows 8.1 x64
3. Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 10 (UEFI)

Tried the below but no luck:

1. Changed the ColorDepth to 32 in unattend.xml in WinPE pass
2. Tried modifying the Wizard.hta with different screen size and style.zoom

Playing around with the HTA settings might help but i am unsure how it looks and behaves on other UEFI devices.

Currently we are using Lenovo Tablet 10 but soon will also be using Surface Pro.

Am I missing something or is there a better way to do fix it?

Hi,

Based on my understanding,  your deployment wizard is normal, but the drop down menu size is extremely small.

From my environment, this is the normal one:

If I misunderstand, please feel free to let me know.

Hi,

If our only issue is this particular font size, we can adjust some setting in files of  script folder.

For example,  open  DeployWiz_LanguageUI.xml under Scripts folder, here is just an example to make keyboard layout font large.

Find:

<SELECT NAME="KeyboardLocale_Edit" class=WideEdit >

Edit it as:

<SELECT NAME="KeyboardLocale_Edit" class=WideEdit style="font-size: 30px" >

The result is just like:

About the root cause, there would be something wrong with the WinPE image, in my test, WinPE 5 works good under UEFI mode. You can recreate one for

Thanks Alex, I read that this is a known issue in WinPE in UEFI mode.

I have regenerated the WinPE image many times but still no luck. If i use the same WinPE on a non UEFI machine or on a Virtual Machine it looks fine.

See the last reply in the below post:

http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/51/Setting-screen-resolution-in-WinPE-4-0.aspx

I will try you suggestion by modifying the font.

Thanks again. 

Hi,

In my environment, I tested in virtual machine, so the result is ok.

For the real situation, if the issue is just related to the font, you can try my suggestions.

To my knowledge, there is no current "fix" for this issue. The official word is that it is behaving as designed, thus it is our (implied) responsibility (as programmers) to work-around this behaviour. I had some ideas on how to handle HTA font sizing, such as detecting the current resolution and using different CSS settings that match that viewpoint. The problem with this is that while it may be fine for one specific device, it is not fine considering different displays and video controllers if you have to manage many different products. So currently, my setup is with the caveat "it looks horrible but it works."