<p>If you haven’t discovered this, and you would like a more readable PC screen, give it a try. I have worked in the HCI area for years, and this is a real improvement for my eyes.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearType/tuner/Step1.aspx[/url]”>http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearType/tuner/Step1.aspx</a></p>
<p>That’s awesome! Thanks.</p>
<p>Holy smokes! It makes an incredible difference. Why is that not the default setting. </p>
<p>Setting it via the web site above didn’t work (for me), but here’s an alternate: For those with XP, open the Display control panel, click onthe Appearance tab, then the Effects button. Then for the line “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts” choose the option “Clear Type.” Thanks for the hint. You just improved my work life.</p>
<p>Thanks bandit and dig - I had to use dig’s method also. Amazing.</p>
<p>bandit: thanks</p>
<p>It has been around since 2000, but I had never seen it either, and I get paid for this stuff.</p>
<p>I just passed along that suggestion to all of my co-workers.</p>
<p>Oh jeez. I was so excited. Turns out my machine was already set for this…</p>
<p>Well, I work with a guy who has lived and breathed Microsoft and UE for 25 years so I suppose since he determines all the machine settings I should have known…</p>
<p>Well, I passed this by my neighhbor here in Texas, Ross P., who knows a thing or two about computers and here is his response: </p>
<p>“Hey, Fatboy. You still haven’t taken the lawn chairs off your roof. Capische? You got me? Now, about this ‘Clear Type’. I decided to get off the porch and see what all the singing was about. Seems to me that nobody would want things to come in any clearer the way things are going . Pretty soon the Dow Jones and ‘KIA in Iraq’ lines are gonna cross and we’ll be in a world of a mess then. Two words: interest rates. You don’t have to look up a truck’s tailpipe to know that some sissy has sprung for the leather interior. You got me? Some things are meant to be obvious but the American people are dang sure not ready for everything to be clear. Not ready. Think about it. Fuzzy soundbites are all we can handle. Fuzzy soundbites and that Whore TV. I’d just leave good enough alone, if it were me in charge. Before anyone criticizes my thinking on this remember, it’s easier to ‘be-rate’ than to ‘be-right’. Capische? You got me?”</p>
<p>The man is certifiably insane but I’m still afraid of him. ;)</p>
<p>BTW, I tried it anyway and it does seem to help even on ancient 3 year old machines.</p>
<p>What a great board!</p>
<p>Wow! I might not need my reading glasses with this new typeset; how cool is that?</p>
<p>I left this board and went to two lower tech looking boards and the difference was even more dramatic. Good catch bandit.</p>
<p>not that I need to have these accomodations- but I have always been happy with Mac OS ;)-
just for those who might need something more
<a href=“http://www.apple.com/accessibility/vision/[/url]”>http://www.apple.com/accessibility/vision/</a></p>
<p>Thanks Bandit and Dig–</p>
<p>Works great and I, too, can throw away the reading glasses…at least for a while. Just sent this to my almost-80-year-old mother who has been having extreme difficulty with her eyes lately and I know it will make a HUGE difference in her life. So thanks again!</p>
<p>This is what it must be like after patient’s have their cataract surgery done! Thanks!</p>
<p>Funny, but the change made text on my screen look “bolder” but blurrier. I switched back.</p>
<p>Thanks, Bandit and Diggi.</p>
<p>curmudge, why are your lawn chairs on your roof??</p>
<p>I think the lawn chairs are to put on the astroturf that “grows” on his roof.</p>
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Two words. Nas-car. (Races are in Texas this week. I can get two hundred fifty for the roof of the trailer if I stock my premium “spectator seats” with beer.)</p>