Windows 7 Blurry text

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Psycrow

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Hi

I just installed win 7 for the first time.
And i want to ask about EI 9 and blurry text.

When i open IE 9 then on some site sthe text seems a littel blurry/fuzzy
Actualy this text im writing here has a small blurry look.

I tryed to disable smooth edge text and i did severals cleartype calibrations with clear type on and off

The text in windows 7 folders and system looks sharp and good compared to the Text in the IE browser, so it has to be IE 9 related.

I did some google search on blurry text and there are other peole having this problem also, but i could not find any way to fix it :s

I run with 1900 x 1200 60 hz and it had no problems in vista or xp.
It is just win 7 with this browser i am having problems on some sites. Then i tryed to run in compatibel mode and that helped a littel on some sites. But it isent 100 %
good.

is there a fix fo rthis ?
And i dont want to use other browsers because i normaly like IE
 
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Hi

I found my post from last year!
This fixed my wife's computer.
I'm pretty sure that both Chrome and IE had the same problem at the time.
The post was on the Google Chrome Forum.


Hi

Clear type is active and Chrome has fuzzy type.
Everything else has nice clear type.

I did find a solution on another forum, but I don't really know why it works.

I did this: R-clicked on My Computer

Then L-clicked on Properties

Then Advanced System Settings

Then Performance Settings.

UN-checked EVERYTHING except: Smooth edges of screen fonts - Smooth-scroll list boxes - Use visual styles on windows and buttons.

Once this was done the type in Chrome looked just like the type in all the other programs.

Restoring the Aero setting...​
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Thx Mike

But that dident change anything in IE 9
I did get a sharper text in wordpad tho..unchecking smooth edges

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Thi sis how i see my screen..i still find some of the text a littel bit fuzzy..it could be more sharp if you ask me..it is like some of the letters apears invisible like
 
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Omg !

I just installed firefox and it feels like i got a pair of new eyes, because the text is so sharp it almost makes my eyes bleed

My eyes are way more relaxed now than on ie 9.. my head was exploding from that blurry text.

Perhaps microsoft has signed a deal with glass companies, so people will get ther eyes ruined from IE 9 and buy glasses
 
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Hi

Glad you found an answer.
You still might want to give Google Chrome a shot, I like it better then FireFox myself and almost everyone I know is using it now.

Since the fuzzy type thing is obviously a problem that many people have had over a long period of time, it would seem it would be worth Microsoft's time to resolve it.
But I haven't seen anything that suggests they are doing anything about it.

Mike
 
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"Blurry Text" was a wide expression. When I looked at your picture, I was shocked - that was really worth complaining about!

It is difficult to understand why it is happening, only with some. Perhaps MS, in their wisdom, have decided it has nothing to do with their OS, but is hardware related - RIP.

Anyway, glad you got the problem resolved.

P.S. Later.

I might have to retract on that. When I expanded you picture (second click) the text was as close to perfect as it gets. I am still of the opinion that it was a screen resolution problem. But this is far from explaining why only in IE !!
 
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On my pictures the text is readable and is close to good, but comparing firefox then it looks awful !
And yes..it cant be screen res. because i always used this res. and firefox has no problem showing sharp text.

It is IE 9 related and why MS dosent do anything about it is a big question to me...we can always hope for a problem solved in IE 10 or newer.
 
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This is wierd ...i just opened Ie 9 on youtube and then the text was blurry but if i press the maximimize icon in the top corner so it fits to the full screen and then resize it to window mode, then the text sudenly changed to sharp.

But when i close Ie 9 and open it again then the text is blurry again until i do the same resize thing again.

Here is a sceen shot of the changes.


What could be wrong ?


test 1 is blurry and test 2 is sharp or normal
 

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And it also has something to do with Compatible because when i disable Compatible mode and resize the browser window in Ie 9 then the text stays blurry, but if i enable Compatible mode and resize the brower window then the text becomes sharp.
 
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Here is an example of what i see in Ie 9 and firefox and after i rezise Ie 9

It is like Ie 9 starts up with some kind of cleartype enable and when i resize the browser in compatibel mode then the clear type gets disabled..that is how it looks like.

Fuzzy IS 9 text on start up


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Firefox text sharp
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Ie 9 after i resize the browser
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So IE 9 CAN show sharp text..but something is messing it up
 
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No they are not..the first picture might be readable for you, but it has a "cleartype" or "Bold" type of layer that dosent seem to be relaxing for my eyes compared to the 2 others.
 
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Hi

If you look closely you will see that the first image from IE at start has changed the proportions of the type, it is wider.

It is also a little bolder. They all look a little fuzzy compared to the type on my computer.

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Top to bottom IE at start, Firefox, IE after re-size.
The bottom 2 look identical, the first one IE is different but I'm not sure it looks worse then the others, it doesn't on my computer.

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This is a sample from my computer, 1920 by 1200 on a 24" monitor.
Ati 5870 video card.

I don't know how much of that has to do with the capture and upload.

Mike
 
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Hi Mike

I dont know what is going on anymore but yes..the first Ie 9 screenshot i made has a bolder form that makes the text
apear unclear to me at my computer, and on my friends computer that also runs win 7 with IE 9 has the same problem showing
the blurry bold text in Ie9 so he uses "crome"

For me this bold cleartype isent relaxing to read
 
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