RE: Display problems

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Check if font smoothing is enabled: right click on the desktop, click
Properties, go to Appearance tab, click on Effects... button, then check the
box

Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts:
Standard


"Jean-Marc" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just bought a new laptop with Windows XP Family Edition and I installed
> Office XP Professional Edition. Everything was ok, but since yesterday I have
> a display problem, and I have no clue what is the reason and how to solve it.
> Text and icons are sometimes blurred (as if there was a "gray duplicate"
> underneath), e.g. desktop icons, "start" name at the bottom left, window
> titles, etc. This also happens for text in documents (as in Word), but not
> always (it comes and it goes).
>
> Can anyone help me please ? I doubt this is hardware problem, it looks more
> like a problem coming from Windows. If anyone is willing to help, I can send
> screenshots showing the problem.
>
> By advance, thank you !
>
> Best regards from Belgium,
>
> Jea-Marc
.



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