JPG' alt='Photoshop Updates Greyed Out Machine' title='Photoshop Updates Greyed Out Machine' />SOLVED Quickbooks 2. Windows 1. 0 PDF Invoices. If youve been using Quick. Books for any length of time, youve become familiar with the problems that seem to plague Quick. Books  PDF functions such as invoicing. After upgrading to Windows 1. I went to bill my clients only to find that once again I couldnt get PDFs to create properly. I had a couple of different error messages come up instead. Your forms were not sent because Quick. Books could not create the necessary PDF files. In our case device is working properly, but its still greyed out. Lets take a look at the Driver area. You want to make sure that youve got the latest drivers. Update 7262017 Looks like Nintendo patched the game so that greyedout tickets no longer go into your inventory. The update wont take away any tickets you may. I went promptly to the online QuickBooks knowledge base and found a QB Print and PDF Repair Tool. I excitedly downloaded it and ran it only to find that it didnt. Slow computer speed up techniques Best tips and advice on how to fix a slow pc by disabling unnecessary Windows services. And also. Quick. Books could not save your form as a PDF file. I went promptly to the online Quick. Books knowledge base and found a QB Print and PDF Repair Tool. I excitedly downloaded it and ran it only to find that it didnt actually repair anything. Dont be dismayed though. The first thing you should know is that printing PDFs in Quick. Books 2. 01. 2 DOES WORK in Windows 1. It may just take some puzzling around to get it working. Windows 1. 0 isnt all that fundamentally different than Windows 8. I figured the process should still work in some fashion. After opening the Print Management tool and looking at the properties, here is what Ive found has happened. When installing Windows 1. Microsoft XPS Document Writer with what I believe is a new driver and attaches it to a port called PORTPROMPT In order to get Quick. Books to print properly again, I did the following Open the Print Management program you can do something similar in Devices and Printers but the steps will be slightly differentDelete the Microsoft XPS Document Writer. Add a new printer using the following steps. Right click in the white space below the printers and choose Add Printer. Choose Create a new port and add a new printer and select Local Port. Name the port XPSChoose Install a new driver. Click Have Disk and browse to the location of where you have probably previously downloaded a new Microsoft XPS Document Writer driver C Windows. System. 32. Microsoft XPS Document Writer in my case and select the driver prnms. If you dont have a copy of the driver, feel free to download it here. Microsoft XPS Document Writer or use this alternative download. Make sure the Printer Name is Microsoft XPS Document Writer, with no additional characters. Click Next and the printer should be added. After adding that back in, get back into Quick. Books and try creating a PDF and you should be good to go Let me know if you were successful in getting this to work. However, if after all of this it doesnt work, my recommendation is that you purchase Quick. Books 2. 01. 6. The best price Ive found it legitimately is here. Adobe App Scaling on High DPI Displays FIXI recently purchased a new Yoga 2 Pro with a gorgeous 3. My main purposes for this device was to do some heavy lifting on the the road with many of my professional applications. I was quickly discouraged when I first fired up Fireworks, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator to find that I needed a magnifying glass to see simple menu options. There is the simple solution of downing the resolution to 1. SO Rather than change a bunch of setting every time I needed to use a few apps by Adobe, I started to seek out a better solution without much luck. Root of the problem Short answer Adobe. Long answer When the apps load, Windows asks if the app is High DPI aware and these apps answer yes. Which is why you end up with an interface for ants. The solution Have the app tell Windows that it is not DPI aware and let it scale everything properly. Granted, this is not the ideal solution, but it does make the apps usable againHow it is done Tell Windows to look for an external manifest file. Create the external manifest files. Step 1 Tell windows to prefer an external manifest file. As always, make sure you backup your registry and tread lightly in this area. We are just going to add one line. This is VERY simple. Do not be intimidated. Press  Windows Button R, type regedit, and then click OK. Navigate to the following registry subkey. HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows Current. Version  Side. By. Side. Right click, select NEW DWORD 3. Value. Type Prefer. External. Manifest, and then press ENTER. Right click Prefer. External. Manifest, and then click Modify. Enter Value Data 1 and select Decimal. Click OK.  Exit Registry Editor. For reference, here is a link to a Microsoft support file on the topic https support. Step 2 Create and place the external manifest files. Now comes the fun part. You will just have to copy your manifest file to all of the application folders that you would like to change the scaling on. For example, Photoshop. C Program FilesAdobeAdobe Photoshop CS6 6. Bit and I created a manifest file in text editor named photoshop. Here is a link to a txt file with the manifest code manifest. For Windows to use the external manifest file, you will have to change the name of the the file to the executable of the application. Here are the files I created for my machine Right click and save to use on your machine Now place this file in the same directory as your executable. All of the ones listed above are are in pretty straight forward locations like C Program Files x. Adobe or C Program FilesAdobe. Amd Athlon Ii Overclocking Software here. That is it It should look great now. No need to reboot or change anything else. Video Example. Download. Right Click Save Link As. External. Manifest. File REGISTRY Dan. Antonielli. com. reg. Download example Manifest file Right Click Save Link As. UPDATE July 2. 01. This solution also works with Windows 1. UPDATE December 2.