Screen information too small on Retina display

I am running Lightroom 4.1 in Windows 7 on a Macbook Pro with Parallels 8. The screen information and dialogs are so small I can't read them. I suspect it is a problem with the extreme resolution of the Retina display. Is there some way to increase the size of the text so it is readable.?

I don't know if it does, but as the software running on the Mac that could be aware of the Mac's retina display, Bootcamp should provide some sort of pixel-doubling compatability mode or something, right?
It still isn't clear why you are not using the Mac version.  Do you have a serial number?  Have you tried installing the Mac version and using the serial number to activate it? 
If you're not sure of the serial number, anymore, you can try using the Belarc Advisor to analyze your Bootcamp partition and find various Adobe serial numbers:
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
And if what the school has provided doesn't use serial numbers, then talk to them about supplying a Mac version for you, then.

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