Re: Installed XP, fonts look terrible

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From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/16/05


Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:41:26 -0500

Install the correct monitor .inf file from the monitor manufacturer. Install
the most current video drivers from the manufacturer of the video board. I
have found that the WHQL drivers from NVIDIA will work on most all NVIDIA
based boards, no matter who markets the boards.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Urban
aka   Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"NoOne" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
news:wwxGd.88793$vO1.535582@nnrp1.uunet.ca...
>I recently bit the bullet and upgraded my Windows 2000 systems to XP.
>
> I have a huge problem now, the fonts look absolutely terrible and are 
> pixelated and blurry. (This is on a laptop screen that looked absolutely 
> crystal clear in Windows 2000).
>
> What in the hell happened in between versions to look so horrible. I have 
> tried every setting possbile (Standard smoothing, clear type etc..) with 
> no luck.
>
> If I can't fix this, I'll have to go back to Win2000. I cannot believe how 
> a supposed updated product would be made to look so horrible by default. I 
> am a writer and I have to be able to look at the screen!!
>
> Thanks for any help.. 


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