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  • 1.  Ghost64.exe with WinPE

    Posted Jun 28, 2019 04:45 PM
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    Good afternoon.

     

    I'm running Ghost64.exe (12.0.0.10644) with WinPE (1903).

    The screen is so little that I can't do anything.

     

    Can anyone help me with this problem ?

     

    Thank you

     

     



  • 2.  RE: Ghost64.exe with WinPE

    Posted Jun 28, 2019 08:04 PM

    The ghost GUI does not scale so if your display is a 2k or a 4k display then it will in windows pe diplay at the native format and thing will be very crisp.  And since winpe can't scale and ghost gui can't scale the only option is to use a monitor with a lower native resolution. 

     

    There are ways to "Hack" windows PE to get it to rescale like how regular windows does but there isn't a built in way to do it with win pe or with Ghost.  

     

    https://support.symantec.com/us/en/article.tech227748.html



  • 3.  RE: Ghost64.exe with WinPE

    Posted Jun 10, 2026 11:09 AM

    I am having this same issue with the latest version of ghost.  I just submitted a support ticket.




  • 4.  RE: Ghost64.exe with WinPE

    Posted Jun 12, 2026 10:44 AM

    Good morning,

    I know the problem very well and it is applicable to current WinPE versions and all recent Ghost versions as well. Especially on high-res notebook screens the Ghost GUI is not usable because unreadable small. I tried to configure WinPE in a way to use lower resolutions, but was not able to find a single working solution.

    --> What is BROADCOMs advise to that well known problem - could you guide us?

    Thanks in advance

    Thomas  


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  • 5.  RE: Ghost64.exe with WinPE

    Posted Jun 12, 2026 11:07 AM

    I just got a response and sadly they are still working on it today.  I gave them all the things I have tried and they see the same issues.


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  • 6.  RE: Ghost64.exe with WinPE

    Posted Jun 12, 2026 03:25 PM

    I just realized that this issue was reported almost 7 years ago.  That really makes me sad,


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  • 7.  RE: Ghost64.exe with WinPE

    Posted Jun 17, 2026 09:09 AM

    No solution available at this time from Broadcom.  My ticket is closed.  Maybe they will fix it in a future version.


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  • 8.  RE: Ghost64.exe with WinPE

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 17, 2026 01:09 PM

    It's not so much as a problem with Ghost, but a problem with WinPE and how it handles scaling (which is not at all). 

    I did some testing to see if I could get WinPE to boot to a different resolution using an unattend.xml file but I could not get that to work either. WinPE is quite stiff when it comes to configuration changes, it seems.

    I will go the other route and speak with the Ghost support team to see if we can get a feature request open for Ghost about some kind of 'Double Pixel Scale' mode on Ghost's startup screen.


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