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    Blurry NoteBook Screen - Dell Factory Settings

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by escapedturkey, Aug 12, 2006.

  1. escapedturkey

    escapedturkey Notebook Guru

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    I got my Inspirion E1705 and love it. I tweaked every possible setting and the screen was just blurry, no matter what I did ...

    Then .. it struck me, I wonder if Dell by default is giving me a bad font or setting. :eek:

    So I go into display settings, appearance, advanced, effects, and noticed cleartype was set for smoothing edges. I turned that off and wow! The display is super sharp. :)

    Just letting others know in case they run into the same issue. :cool:
     
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  2. Leshii

    Leshii Notebook Evangelist

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    you don't have to go to advanced, just ... appearance --> effects :)
     
    Leshii, Aug 12, 2006
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  3. drumfu

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    1. run at native resolution
    2. set dpi to 96
    3. enable cleartype
     
    drumfu, Aug 12, 2006
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  4. escapedturkey

    escapedturkey Notebook Guru

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    I'll have to try that. Where do you change the DPI? Thank you. :)
     
    escapedturkey, Aug 12, 2006
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    right click on the desktop-->properties-->settings-->click advanced-->General tab.

    Most of us have it at Normal - 96 DPI
     
    Amber, Aug 12, 2006
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    escapedturkey Notebook Guru

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    Hrm, yah mine is 96 Normal. Some reason clear type is really blurry. It's so much sharper without it. Is that common?
     
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    i guess it comes down to personal preference since i really hate the way things look without it.
     
    drumfu, Aug 12, 2006
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  8. escapedturkey

    escapedturkey Notebook Guru

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    Hehe. I may just need glasses. Doh.
     
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  9. postmortem

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    I like ClearType, it is supposed to make text more readable on LCDs, not the other way around.

    Your topic title is misleading. Although ClearType does make text more blurry, it doesn't make whole screen blurry.

    And new Vista/Office 2007 fonts (Corbel, Segoe UI, Consolas, Constatia, etc.) work well only with ClearType enabled.
     
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  10. Leshii

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    Interesting info on Vista.I guess we'll see what it looks like when it's finally released. I think cleartype is a matter of preference.

    Btw. In XP, when I tried changing DPI it made a lot of stuff (icons etc) look pretty ugly...
     
    Leshii, Aug 12, 2006
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