Re: Display problems

Right-click the desktop and select Properties.
Click the Appearance tab.
Click Effects.
Under Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts, select ClearType.
Click OK.
Click OK on the main dialog box.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

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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