Windows 7/8 image quality vs XP

[supafly]

On the same computer, multi booting between windows 7, windows 8 CP and windows XP the image quality is much better on windows XP.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a fix?

Where the text is pin sharp in windows xp, it is a bit fuzzy in windows7/8. It hurts my eyes working in win7/8 to be honest.

 

[supafly]

Using 1680x1050 lcd at that resolution.

I did a bit of googling yesterday and found some answers which have improved things.

1. disable cleartype
2. change default font from Segue to Tahoma (Tahoma is used on xp)
3. disabled graphics card hardware acceleration in ie
4. not relevant to image clarity, but disabled all those annoying permissions nags when copying moving files.
5. installed classic shell

Things are looking good now. Need to do same thing on win7 laptop because that has blurry text too, but I thought it was the screen/graphics card - now I know I can fix it!

 

[supafly]

Lol, there is lots of people looking for solution to win7/8 blurry text online so I am not the only one. I guess with some hardware default looks good. To my eyes and with my hardware it did not look good, looks better now though! Full time webmaster so it is important I do not suffer from eye strain. Each to their own definitely!

 

[supafly]

i have to agree,even with clear type off on windows 7 or vista, xp is miles ahead. the text is just so crisp on xp.

(by the way, im using windows 7)

Thanks for your support.

I have had a win 7 laptop for about 18 months and have always found the text not as clear, even when connecting it up to the desktop monitor.

For those who work on their computer rather than play games/run benchmarks/brag about pc specs text quality is important to minimize eye strain and XP by default is clearer than windows 7/8.

I'm pretty sure Kaspersky will protect the pc without having the constant nag screens popping up. After all XP does not have those nag screens and it keeps it nice and secure.