Windows Phone Live Tiles with Background from the Web and updated automatically. - windows-phone-8

I am currently working on a windows Phone App that is supposed to have a flipping liveTile. Here's how it is supposed to work:
The Front will be generated from UI Elements that are filled with Data pulled from a Web API. That Backside will be generated from an Image downloaded from the Web. the Idea ist to have one Image for the small liveTile size and one for the big live tile.
Can someone give me a hint, how i can update the livetile automatically without having to have the app opened? I can't do it with a Push notification because i don't have a server to do the pushing in the first place. I tried using the ShellTileSheduler and RemotImageURI property but this doesn't work for different sizes. Am i missing something? Has anyone done somehting like this and has an idea how to do it? I'm getting really frustrated.

Here is a good start to generate tile
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/andy_wigley/archive/2013/04/10/live-apps-creating-custom-tile-and-lock-screen-images.aspx

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Problem
I'm having the problem for days and haven't found anyone else mentioned it..
The issue is that when I set the system dpi scaling to 150% or above, some webpages I open in CHtmlView would be messed up, while using IE or Chrome not causing the same problem.
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It seems like in CHtmlView the fonts get bigger than it's needed. I figured out this situation happens if my program's "high DPI-aware" property is set. But I can't turn it off either because the webpage would be blurry.
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Edit:
Because the website I'm having problem with is a private site, so I use another page to explain the situation.
Webpage in HtmlView, seem like only fonts get bigger.
Webpage in IE
I'm here as I've got the same problem.
You can create a new VS2017 MFC project, derive a view from CHtmlView, you'll find this in the constructed code
void CMFCApplication4View::OnInitialUpdate()
{
CHtmlView::OnInitialUpdate();
Navigate2(_T("http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/"),nullptr, nullptr);
}
(Note I had to delete the two trailing nullptr arguments to get it to compile)
My application manifest lists the app as being High DPI Aware and I've got a 200% (192dpi) scaled monitor.
The web page that loads is tiny (unscaled).
zett42's answer (Aug 31 '17 at 14:39) is correct. Add the registry key indicated, using
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
MFCApplication4.exe=11001 [your application name here].
Restart the app, hey presto everythin is correctly scaled.
Dunno why I can't upvote zett42.

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