ClearType in XP - WOW
 

Anyone else turn this on?

Night and day difference...

Go to Desktop, right-click it and select properties.

Under the Appearance tab, click Effects.

Go to "use the following to smooth screen fonts"

Select "Clear Type" and check the box.

Looks amazing on my new flat LCD screen and laptop!

what does it do?

it smooths the screen fonts in a different way.

once you turn it on, it looks like viewing a laser printer as opposed to dot-matrix.

even if you like your current setup, try it... at least on my LCD, this looks fantastic and I am seriously impressed what a huge jump forward it is in terms of look.

apparently, the default is to have it off - and most companies configure their systems with it off.

not sure how it looks non-LCD, but for an LCD system, I cannot imagine going back now.

hmmm... interesting.. I think I like it the default way, though. :)
hmm.. maybe the laptop will like it...

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...ame=%20&fsize=

ClearType tuner is there... it will let tweak it a bit... the default settings worked best for me.

yep, makes a world of difference on the laptop. THanks. :thumbsup

It's nice. But it uses alot more system resources.

512MB RAM - going to a gig soon.

I got system resources coming out my ass... LOL.

Seriously, this one I think is worth it... not just a minor cosmetic tweak, but a pretty serious one.

Looks blurry.

Hey can you do a screenshot so we can see it?

I agree its blurry on my monitor

A little blurry to me.

looks almost like a scanned document or something thats not 100% clear

I love antialiased text. :) My Mac has had it for quite a while now, with a number of different settings to fine-tune to different monitors.

Agree. Its a little blurry
Especilly on white background.

the gray bg makes white fade into blue.
and the white area is from MS word
http://www.xxxmanager.com/help/blur.gif

i think it makes it look fugly

It actually looks quite good on my Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox 600 (Pocket PC). But that one is a small LCD/TFT screen. Maybe it looks good on TFTs?

cleartype technology was developed for LCD/TFT displays, it isn't really suited to use on CRT's at all, and usually makes text look worse than without on tubes..

Yeppers. Just tried it on a 21" .25dp monitor and it did not do anything good...But on the laptop...Well now....Thats a different story. Looks great there.

Yah, it really does kick ass to read with the Clear Type, Thanks for the pointer.......


Herb K

I like the default way better, too.

I read faster on the default, rather than with ClearType enabled.

From what I have read in the past it is supposed to only be used on LCD monitors. So if your trying it on a CRT it may look a little funny

Hence the key - LCD only.

Sorry for the CRT folks who gave it a try and experienced weirdness.

tried it on my awesome crt, and it worked ok. but it's abnormal and made my eyes hurt.