Re: Display problems

Which graphic driver do you have?Update the driver from the manufacturer's website.

In the mean time you may do the followings:-

Start>Run>Regedit>Ok

Now navigate to:-

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel­\Desktop\WindowMetrics

Look in the right pane for Shell Icon BPP - it should be set to 16
If not, double click on it and enter the value as 16.

Otherwise,you may try:-

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

left item #4. [Repairs the Icon View]

Regarding WORD doc. problem you may try Detect and Repair under Help menu.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

Jean-Marc wrote: 
Hello,

Thank you both for your suggestion to check font edges. I did and it did not solve the problem, yet. Sorry.

Actually, this is not just for characters ; icons on the desktop are also "blurred". I put 2 screenshots online : www.decizium.com/screen1.jpg (desktop, look at the "Start"/"Démarrer" menu) and www.decizium.com/screen2.jpg (Word document). The problem in Word documents comes and goes on its own.

Any other suggestion ?

Regards,

Jean-Marc

"S.Sengupta" wrote:


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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