Friday, 16 January 2009

Enable XP ClearType

XP has ClearType -- Microsoft's anti-aliasing font display technology -- but doesn't have it enabled by default. 
It's well worth trying, especially if you were there for DOS and all those years of staring at a screen have given you the eyes of an astigmatic bat. 
To enable ClearType, right click on the desktop, 
select Properties, Appearance, Effects, 
select ClearType from the second drop-down menu 
and enable the selection. 

Expect best results on laptop displays. 

If you want to use ClearType on the Welcome login screen as well, set the registry entry 
HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Desktop/FontSmoothingType to 2.

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