Legibility of screen display

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When I bought my last computer, on initial setup it came up with a screen
that said something like "Choose which of these options makes the screen
most legible." I tried various choices, which made only a rather subtle
difference in legibility, then chose the one I liked best. I think it had
something to do with the pixel dot size, and perhaps how adjacent pixels run
into each other.

So now I bought a new computer, and it did not come up with that kind of
screen legibility option. I chose the same fonts as I had been used to, and
the same screen resolution, etc., but the screen is not as readable as it
used to be (I am using the same monitor that I had before). My impression
is that the pixels are just a little bit thinner than before. Letters look
thinner; they look a little more like they are made up of dots (which of
course they are, but if the dots were a little fatter they would merge
better).

Both the previous computer and the new one came with XP, although the
previous one was probably pre-SR2.

Is there any way to modify the quality of character display in XP? Or would
this be a Graphics Adapter vendor-specific issue?

Thanks for any help.

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Thanks Malke, that was exactly what I wanted.

Renny


"Malke" <invalid@not-real.com> wrote in message
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> Renny Bosch wrote:
>
>> When I bought my last computer, on initial setup it came up with a
>> screen that said something like "Choose which of these options makes
>> the screen
>> most legible." I tried various choices, which made only a rather
> (snippage)
>
>> Is there any way to modify the quality of character display in XP? Or
>> would this be a Graphics Adapter vendor-specific issue?
>>
>
> Download the ClearType tuner Power Toy:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp [...] rtoys.mspx
>
> Malke
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