Windows

Q: I have issues with my high resolution display. What can I do?

You have to change the "compatibility settings" for JabRef to "Disable scaling for high DPI settings". Further information is available at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-scaling-issues-for-high-dpi-devices-508483cd-7c59-0d08-12b0-960b99aa347d

Further reading: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/415 and http://discourse.jabref.org/t/jabref-3-6-on-hires-laptop-screen-messed-up/277.

Q: How can I use JabRef as backend for Microsoft Word?

You can directly use the references in Word's internal reference manager. Short explanation: Export your bibliography in XML format and replace the Sources.xml in %APPDATA%\Roaming\Microsoft\Bibliography. Long explanation: check out Export to Microsoft Word. Also, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PpLZTol9_o for a video explaining how to add and how to cite references in a Word document.

Another option is to use Bibtex4Word. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j3g4wfdM00 for a video explaining the usage.

The last option is to use Docear4Word, which is planned to be ported to JabRef (see JabRef4Word).

Q: I get WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.

Start regedit and create the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Prefs. [source]

Q: Where can I find JabRef's log files?

A: On Windows, one finds the log files in %APPDATA%\..\Local\org.jabref\jabref\Logs\{version}. {version} indicates the currently used JabRef version.

Q: I have issues with the Chinese display language in Windows 10 Enterprise. What can I do?

A: According to source, you may have to set the font manually by downloading the Base.css from Custom themes - JabRef. Then open the Base.css, and add the following text at the end of Base.css:

.text {
-fx-font-family: “Microsoft YaHei”;
}