Font quality has deteriorated

[artrosch]

A few days ago I noticed that fonts in many of my apps looked pretty rough. i.e. My desktop
folder names, my Word docs, a lot of my browser fonts. I use XP sp3 pro, recently reformatted and working nicely. First thing I did was go into System/performance/advanced
and revert to "adjust for best appearance". No change. things that have recently changed are: new wireless keybord (logitech) and wireless mouse (also logitech). A new video card
driver was installed, I rolled that back to the older driver. There are, of course, several
MS updates that I allowed to be installed. I'm about to take a look at those. Is anyone else seeing this or have ideas about it?

Thanks

[Welshjim]

artrosch--Perhaps Clear Type (from MS) will help
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306527
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...ner/step1.aspx

[artrosch]

That's pretty interesting, Jim. It does help, some. I've also made my fonts larger, which has nullified most of the bleeding from letter to letter. It's just weird, I've never had this
happen before. I'm wondering if something has happened to my monitor (Dell 2050 LCD,
a 20 inch screen. Though test images and startup/shutdown look ok.

thanks

[Train]

Video card?

Remove it and clean the junk off the fan blades and clean the air passages.
Had overheating cause something like you see.

[jdc2000]

To see if it is the monitor, you could try connecting it to a different computer. Just unplugging and re-plugging the monitor cable on both ends might help also, if the contact pins are dirty.

[SpywareDr]

Might also check your Display Properties > Settings and make sure it's set to "Highest (32 bit)" instead of "Medium (16 bit)". (If it was set to 16-bit, and you change it to 32-bit, re-run the ClearType utility).