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post #1 of 6
4/27/06 at 6:51pm
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I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook, running Windows XP Home that I use primarily for Internet, Excel and Word applications. Recently, there was a problem with Windows which I've reinstalled. Everything appears to be working fine except that images and text on screen now lack the clarity and sharpness that they had previously. I've tried various combinations of setting and on someone's advice reinstalled the NVIDIA driver. All this has been to no avai as the appearance of text/images still slightly fuzzy.

Grateful for any advice.
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post #2 of 6
4/27/06 at 7:12pm
Ensure you are setting your screen at its maximum resolution. Also check to see if having ClearType enabled/disabled effects your clarity of images/text. You can find the settings in the display properties -> Appearence Tab, Effects Button, Check the 2nd box for ClearType if its set to standard then change it to cleartype.
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post #3 of 6
4/27/06 at 7:24pm
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Originally Posted by DELL-Machina
Ensure you are setting your screen at its maximum resolution. Also check to see if having ClearType enabled/disabled effects your clarity of images/text. You can find the settings in the display properties -> Appearence Tab, Effects Button, Check the 2nd box for ClearType if its set to standard then change it to cleartype.

Thanks for the advice.

When the screen is at maximum resolution, the typeface is too small to read. Tried the clear type setting but no success either, I'm afraid.
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post #4 of 6
4/28/06 at 11:57am
Un fortunetely you have to have it at maximum resolution to get the clear effect. If you want to increase the font size while keeping the resolution then increase your DPI size.

Display Properties -> Settings Tab -> Advanced Button Switch DPI to 120 (Large)
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post #5 of 6
4/28/06 at 12:03pm
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Originally Posted by DELL-Machina
Un fortunetely you have to have it at maximum resolution to get the clear effect. If you want to increase the font size while keeping the resolution then increase your DPI size.

Display Properties -> Settings Tab -> Advanced Button Switch DPI to 120 (Large)


One other thing to try that works with the higher resolutions is to go to support.dell.com and get the Internet Explorer Scaling Utility. Fixes most non-96 dpi issues in a pinch.


http://support.dell.com/support/down...&fileid=127677
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post #6 of 6
4/28/06 at 5:39pm
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Thanks for all this advice that I've now implemented
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