Turn Off Clear Type in Aero

[Tom]

Hi All,

Is there a way to turn off Clear Type while using Aero. I have it off in the
settings in IE7. When I have Vista in Classic Mode, I can make the change
under Control Panel/Personalization/Window Color and Appearanceand this
sticks. But when I turn on Aero, Favorites in the sidebar (in Firefox or
IE), toolbar text in Word, Excel, etc are clear type. Now the body of
messages, e.g in Outlook, Windows mail and in web pages are not clear type,
just the toolbars, favorites in those prgrams (I guess since I have Outlook
messages viewed in HTML, that won't happen there) . Interestingly, In Word,
Excel, PP, any text I add in Office programs are all in Clear type.

Anyway to stop this in Aero, or is that its function that cannot be altered?

Thanks,
Tom

 

[De Vries]

Hi All,

Is there a way to turn off Clear Type while using Aero. I have it off in
the settings in IE7. When I have Vista in Classic Mode, I can make the
change under Control Panel/Personalization/Window Color and Appearanceand
this sticks. But when I turn on Aero, Favorites in the sidebar (in Firefox
or IE), toolbar text in Word, Excel, etc are clear type. Now the body of
messages, e.g in Outlook, Windows mail and in web pages are not clear
type, just the toolbars, favorites in those prgrams (I guess since I have
Outlook messages viewed in HTML, that won't happen there) . Interestingly,
In Word, Excel, PP, any text I add in Office programs are all in Clear
type.

Anyway to stop this in Aero, or is that its function that cannot be
altered?

Thanks,
Tom

Go to the "Help" function in your startmenu en type "cleartype", then you
will see the option for disabling/enabling it (I know there's also another
way).... I did, since I was using Vista on a comp. with a CRT monitor,
cleartype is for flatscreens.

Greetings,

De Vries.

 

[Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP]]

Hi,

Go to Control Panel -> "Personalization" and click "Windows Color and
Appearance"
On the bottom of that page, click "Open classic appearance properties for
more color options"

In the window that opens, click the "Effects..." button
Under "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts:" either
select "Standard" in place of "ClearType," or I think disabling the checkbox
(unchecking it) should do the trick as well. Some experimenting may be in
order

Hope this helps

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