Vista blurriness

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outlaw88

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It appears that the taskbar and other certain boxes that contain text (like the address bar in IE7) are somewhat blury in Vista. Almost like Cleartype is not activated even though it is. Is this an effect of Aero being used? I wasn't too sure if this is ruled as a display issue or an OS issue because this isn't happening in XP (I'm dual booting). The only 2 things i've done are auto-adjusted my monitor a couple of times and made sure Cleartype was on. Would a screenshot help?
 
I found Cleartype made things worse on my screen(s)
But yes I'm pretty sure it's just an OS thing and not your screen. If you look closely at the text, its actually slightly transparent. This gives it a slightly blurred look, something that I'm not all that fond of...
 
outlaw88 said:
blury...Almost like Cleartype is not activated even though it is.
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Dude, Cleartype adds blurriness, not the opposite. I don't use it myself. Disable it and see if you like pixelation better.
 
Cleartype is completely adjustible.. primarily for use with LCD's as they really make aliased objects ugly.. if you are running a CRT you should really tone it down.. it's not just on and off, you have a slider.
 
Well I wasn't sure if this was a cleartype issue in the first place, I should've stated that. It may not even be related to cleartype but it is an issue within Vista, i'll investigate further.
 
cerebrex said:
Cleartype is completely adjustible.. primarily for use with LCD's as they really make aliased objects ugly.. if you are running a CRT you should really tone it down.. it's not just on and off, you have a slider.
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Slider? Whereabouts?
 
Well, Vista has a slider, so if your using vista you should have one, XP may not.

Bluriness is no issue with Vista.. I highly doubt microsoft would ship their flagship product with a problem like that... it is crystal clear on my display, im sure you have either a setting off or something of that nature.
 
cerebrex said:
Well, Vista has a slider, so if your using vista you should have one, XP may not.

Bluriness is no issue with Vista.. I highly doubt microsoft would ship their flagship product with a problem like that... it is crystal clear on my display, im sure you have either a setting off or something of that nature.
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Again, whereabouts? I have used Vista for months now without ever seeing the slider.....Please enlighten me. And no, videocard drivers are certainly not the culprit here ;)
 
cerebrex, hate to ask again, but where is that slider? I hope you don't mean the color slider, because that ain't it.
 
Here is a page that seems to show the slider in Vista. Didn't know it myself either, nifty. Looks you have to download and install the powertoy in vista to get the slider, unless I'm mistaken.
 
jakuum said:
Here is a page that seems to show the slider in Vista. Didn't know it myself either, nifty. Looks you have to download and install the powertoy in vista to get the slider, unless I'm mistaken.
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I'll have to try this when I get home.
 
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