Windows 7 DPI scaling causes problems in VMware Player

Hi there,
I'm running Windows 7 x86 Professional and VMware Player 3.0.0. Windows 7 is set to 150% larger fonts (DPI scaling).
If I start VMware Player with this DPI setting the guest VM is scaled aswell. If I set Windows 7 NOT to use DPI scaling only for VMware Player about 25% of the guest's screen is unreachable (lower-right). (See this screenshot: http://pix.sonhult.se/vmware.jpg)
The guest is running Ubuntu 9.10 x86.
Have anyone else been experimenting with DPI scaling and VMware Player? Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

I know this is a thread necro but it's kinda hilarious and sad. I just searched the forums for "player dpi" and here I stumble upon my own post on the subject over five years ago.
This time I'm running VMware Player version 11.1.0.58002 on a Windows 7 SP1 host where I've got the DPI set to 125%. I ran a Visual Studio tool called Spy++ while one of my VMs is compacting and it shows this information for that window:
Window (id) "VMware Player" (Dialog)
--- Window (id) "Compacting virtual disk..." Static
--- Window (id) "" msctls_progress32
--- Window (id) "Cancel" Button
At 125% DPI I've never seen the Cancel button.
Besides continuing to be indifferent to people who don't have perfect eyesight, this problem is going to occur more frequently when 4K displays become more popular with businesses. People will need to use much higher DPI to be able to read the fonts at those super-high resolutions.

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