Removing desktop icon text shadow? (really bad with cleartyp
Is there a way to remove the shadows under the names of the desktop icons - when yuo have cleartype font smoothing activated the shadows are reaaly bad making it very difficult to read the icon's text! there must be a setting somewhere? Tom
Is there a way to remove the shadows under the names of the desktop icons - when yuo have cleartype font smoothing activated the shadows are reaaly bad making it very difficult to read the icon's text!
there must be a setting somewhere?
Tom
there must be a setting somewhere?
Tom
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Yes there is a setting; and Sorry I can't remeber off the top of my head. I just deleted the XP249? partition and haven't yet installed RC1.
Just a question. Are you talking about a Laptop or a desktop with an LCD monitor? I ask because ClearType is designed for LCD screens. If you have a normal CRT display use the Standard Font Smoothing. It really looked great on mine.
Just a question. Are you talking about a Laptop or a desktop with an LCD monitor? I ask because ClearType is designed for LCD screens. If you have a normal CRT display use the Standard Font Smoothing. It really looked great on mine.
"ClearType font technology works with existing systems. Readability on CRT monitors will be improved somewhat, but it will be dramatically improved on color LCD monitors with a digital interface, such as those found in laptops and high-quality flat desktop displays."
From: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/cleartypeq.htm
-bZj
From: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/cleartypeq.htm
-bZj
Hmm....All the fonts get alot different, that's at least I think...
They get like...HARDER to read...
They get like...HARDER to read...
in the past I have run screen font smoothing and also would run in a higher res with larger font sizes just to get clean readable type. Something that makes the type readable at lower resolutions is the sort of thing Microsoft *should* be focussing their energies on. It affects every aspect of every applications and every use of everything people do on their computer.
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If I remember, When I first loaded XP, the desktop fonts had shadows and were not in colored boxes. I know that you can set it for Cleartype font in properties/appearance/effects, but there is still the same old fonts in the colored boxes under each Icon.....How can I set it back up for the shadowed fonts on the desktop???
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There must be something not right about Radeon Video driver.
Hardly surprising, ATI have the worst driver support in the business...
I tried ClearType once just to see what the fuss was about and it looked like utter crap. My aging monitor probably had a lot to do with that (it has a slight convergence problem in addition to overall brightness issues) but even seeing CT in screenshots lookes ****. I'll give it another go when I get a better monitor but right now I'm not terribly impressed.
There must be something not right about Radeon Video driver.
Hardly surprising, ATI have the worst driver support in the business...
I tried ClearType once just to see what the fuss was about and it looked like utter crap. My aging monitor probably had a lot to do with that (it has a slight convergence problem in addition to overall brightness issues) but even seeing CT in screenshots lookes ****. I'll give it another go when I get a better monitor but right now I'm not terribly impressed.
