Way to disable all Cleartype effects possible?

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Michael Cecil

When I set the method of font smoothing to "standard" it looks terrible
although some applications then look okay. The rest look about as clear
as smooth fonts in under Linux. In other words, horrible. Isn't there a
way to go entirely back to the method used in W2K/XP?
 
It's the font that's used that looks horrible without cleartype. The
default font that Vista uses is designed for cleartype. To change the font,
right click on your desktop, go to personalize. Click visual appearance.
Click open classic appearance properties. Go to advanced. Under item,
change each one to a font like 'Arial' or 'Tahoma'. (For those that use
fonts that is.)
 
Travis said:
It's the font that's used that looks horrible without cleartype. The
default font that Vista uses is designed for cleartype. To change the
font, right click on your desktop, go to personalize. Click visual
appearance. Click open classic appearance properties. Go to advanced.
Under item, change each one to a font like 'Arial' or 'Tahoma'. (For
those that use fonts that is.)
Michael Cecil said:
When I set the method of font smoothing to "standard" it looks terrible
although some applications then look okay. The rest look about as clear
as smooth fonts in under Linux. In other words, horrible. Isn't there a
way to go entirely back to the method used in W2K/XP?
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The only problem is, that WPF (Avalon) applications still use ClearType.
I guess MS wants to force it upon us...

When you use (right-click on desktop/personalize) - Visual Appearance
then you can select the Windows Classic theme (from Windows 2000). It
makes pretty much everything non-ClearType, but the cool effects are gone.
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The only problem is, that WPF (Avalon) applications still use ClearType.
I guess MS wants to force it upon us...

When you use (right-click on desktop/personalize) - Visual Appearance
then you can select the Windows Classic theme (from Windows 2000). It
makes pretty much everything non-ClearType, but the cool effects are gone.
Click to expand...

Not much point in upgrading if you have to do that, eh? Especially for
folks like me who will uninstall Windows Mail, WMP, Defender, the
firewall, etc. so we can use our own choice of applications instead.
 
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