It sounds like you have Cleartype turned on. Display Properties > Appearance > Effects > turn of ClearlType .
Cheers ____________________________________ Neil Atwood - Sydney, Australia " Drink Good Coffee. You can sleep when you're DEAD!" > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Rick Glazier > Sent: Friday, 1 April 2005 5:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: WinXP Desktop question on fonts > > This is hard to describe, but here goes... > > I have/run WinXP-Pro-SP1. > I built/installed a WinXP-Pro-SP2 machine. Blank HD, clean FPP install. > (Actually, I used a "slipstreamed from an MS gold factory FPP CD", if that > matters.) > > The desktop fonts that describe the desktop icons do not look the same > on the two machines... Note: The wallpaper is showing through the text. > > The ones on the SP2 machine have an VERY heavy "shadow" around > the entire letter. (We want to get rid of most or all of that shadow.) > My SP1 machine (set for the exact font names, same size, NOT bold or > anything) have a very mild shadow (if any)... > Is this some setting buried in accessibility or some other place out of the > way? > > I found THIS one: > Open System Properties in Control Panel, choose the Advanced tab, and > click Settings in the Performance section. Turn on/off the "Use drop shadows > for icon labels on the desktop" option, and click Ok. > That changed it to/from plain "pure text" -- in a box that is the color of > the desktop > background color. That works to make things easy to read, but toning down > the shadows is what we are "going for"... > > I read on the WEB there might be another six or so settings that might affect > the "original" transparent text background shadow look, but can't find those > settings listed. > > Note: I just thought of changing video resolutions, etc. So no, I have not > tried that... > We are both running 64M video ram. (Different companies.) > ALSO, his monitor is MUCH better than mine. We both have LCDs. > > I'm stumped for now... (And on such a "dumb" thing... <grin>) > > Rick Glazier -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
