Installed IE7 and text is now blurry

[Spock]

I just installed Internet Explorer 7 and now the text is blurry and hard to read. It's giving me a headache. Can anyone help?

[Pkunk]

most likely cleartype fonts have been enabled

what kind of monitor do you have spock?

(AFAIK there is application level control over cleartype fonts and system wide -> mine is turned on for the entire system)

EDIT:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/03/524367.aspx

according to this your LCD (i assume you are using an LCD, cleartype fonts dont work on CRT's afaik) may require some tuning to get things to look correct. There are links on there on how to tune)

if you dont like the cleartype font at all (i do, its awesome ) then instructions are on there on how to turn it off and return things to normal

[shrike]

As pkunk said, that'd be cleartype.

You should be able to turn it off by going to TOOLS->Advanced Tab

And under there is a check box for "allow cleartype for HTML*" or something similar. Make sure it's UNTICKED, ok your way out and restart IE

EDIT: Pkunk, thye do work on CRTs and give me a headache as they make the fonts blurry as opposed to anti-aliasing them on an LCD.

[Desmo]

I just installed Internet Explorer 7 and now the text is blurry and hard to read. It's giving me a headache. Can anyone help?
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That'll be the Microsoft virus.

[Pkunk]

EDIT: Pkunk, thye do work on CRTs and give me a headache as they make the fonts blurry as opposed to anti-aliasing them on an LCD.
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asiancat does not approve of blurry fonts

asiancat however DOES approve of activating system wide cleartype fonts on his shiney dell 19" work LCD's

[Rhino]

Make sure you're running at your monitors native resolution to give it a good chance too. Regardless of CRT or LCD.

[Spock]

As pkunk said, that'd be cleartype.

You should be able to turn it off by going to TOOLS->Advanced Tab

And under there is a check box for "allow cleartype for HTML*" or something similar. Make sure it's UNTICKED, ok your way out and restart IE

EDIT: Pkunk, thye do work on CRTs and give me a headache as they make the fonts blurry as opposed to anti-aliasing them on an LCD.
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Thanks for the suggestions guys,

It was the "cleartype for HTML" that was the problem as I am using a CRT monitor. Once I unchecked it and restarted IE7 - problem was gone!

Thanks again!