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Old February 17th 06, 07:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Hi all,

I just got a DELL Inspiron 3000 (oldie but goodie) with a Pentium II at
233MHz
and a display panel of 800x600.

I upgraded to Win 98SE, but the fonts on the screen don't look right.

Within a word, some letters are thicker than others, using more pixels
in their width
while other seems slender, using less pixels horizontally. The "thick"
letters look
choppy. This seems to happen arbitrarily, since an "n" in one word is
thick while
another "n" elsewhere is just right.

Display properties indicates:

Laptop Display Panel (800x600) on NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD
It is at true color (24 bit) (also tried it at Hi Color 16 bit)
Screen area is set at highest possible, 800x600

Any ideas on how to get the fonts to look better? Any recommendations
are
welcomed :-)


Saga




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Old February 17th 06, 07:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Screen fonts are thick and choppy

did you try "windows standard" desktop theme..it might reset any adjustment
made to font settings

"Saga" wrote in message
...

Hi all,

I just got a DELL Inspiron 3000 (oldie but goodie) with a Pentium II at
233MHz
and a display panel of 800x600.

I upgraded to Win 98SE, but the fonts on the screen don't look right.

Within a word, some letters are thicker than others, using more pixels in
their width
while other seems slender, using less pixels horizontally. The "thick"
letters look
choppy. This seems to happen arbitrarily, since an "n" in one word is
thick while
another "n" elsewhere is just right.

Display properties indicates:

Laptop Display Panel (800x600) on NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD
It is at true color (24 bit) (also tried it at Hi Color 16 bit)
Screen area is set at highest possible, 800x600

Any ideas on how to get the fonts to look better? Any recommendations are
welcomed :-)


Saga






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Old February 17th 06, 07:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Screen fonts are thick and choppy

"Saga" wrote in message
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I upgraded to Win 98SE, but the fonts on the screen don't look right.


"Haggis" wrote in message
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did you try "windows standard" desktop theme..it might reset any

adjustment
made to font settings


Two standard checks:
1 / start / settings / control panel / system / device manager
Look for yellow triangles flagging trouble spots. If you see
any, look on line for newer drivers for these components.

2 / start / run / SFC.EXE
= System File Checker.
You can set it to check c:\windows\fonts\*.*
All SFC does is compare selected Wiindows files
(your selection) with a list built when you installed.
Because you upgraded recently, go carefully.
Write down the names of any font files reported
faulty, and save copies elsewhere, in case you
prefer the old ones.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


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Old February 17th 06, 08:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Screen fonts are thick and choppy


Thanks Haggis,

I have slected windows standard desktop theme. No changeinthe
fonts.

I appreciate your help.

Saga



"Haggis" wrote in message
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did you try "windows standard" desktop theme..it might reset any
adjustment made to font settings

"Saga" wrote in message
...

Hi all,

I just got a DELL Inspiron 3000 (oldie but goodie) with a Pentium II
at 233MHz
and a display panel of 800x600.

I upgraded to Win 98SE, but the fonts on the screen don't look right.

Within a word, some letters are thicker than others, using more
pixels in their width
while other seems slender, using less pixels horizontally. The
"thick" letters look
choppy. This seems to happen arbitrarily, since an "n" in one word is
thick while
another "n" elsewhere is just right.

Display properties indicates:

Laptop Display Panel (800x600) on NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD
It is at true color (24 bit) (also tried it at Hi Color 16 bit)
Screen area is set at highest possible, 800x600

Any ideas on how to get the fonts to look better? Any recommendations
are
welcomed :-)


Saga








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Old February 17th 06, 08:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Screen fonts are thick and choppy

Check the maker's web site for an updated video driver.

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"Haggis" wrote in message
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did you try "windows standard" desktop theme..it might reset any
adjustment made to font settings

"Saga" wrote in message
...

Hi all,

I just got a DELL Inspiron 3000 (oldie but goodie) with a Pentium II at
233MHz
and a display panel of 800x600.

I upgraded to Win 98SE, but the fonts on the screen don't look right.

Within a word, some letters are thicker than others, using more pixels in
their width
while other seems slender, using less pixels horizontally. The "thick"
letters look
choppy. This seems to happen arbitrarily, since an "n" in one word is
thick while
another "n" elsewhere is just right.

Display properties indicates:

Laptop Display Panel (800x600) on NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD
It is at true color (24 bit) (also tried it at Hi Color 16 bit)
Screen area is set at highest possible, 800x600

Any ideas on how to get the fonts to look better? Any recommendations are
welcomed :-)


Saga








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Old February 17th 06, 09:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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First off, thank to all who replied, your help is much appreciated.

Here is what happened...

I selected the standard theme desktop, no change
I then went into device manager and checked for any yellow exclamation
points - all seemed to be well there :-)

I them ran SFC - setupx.dll was corrupted. Although I did not think
that had any relation to my display problem I restored it. I ran SFC
a second time and all was well.

I then went to Dell's web site and searched for drivers. I did find
one for the adapter that was released about a year after the one that
was currently installed. After some challenges, I managed to install
the driver, rebooted, but still no change.

I wondered if I missed something so I went to Google (again) and
did a search with the phrase:

dell inspiron 3000 user guide

Going down the list of results I see this brief semi description of
a result that mentioned the Inspiron 3000's features: model 233XT,
48MB RAM, 3GB HD XGA TFT 13" 1024x768 display, etc...

Wait a second! My display definitely said that it was 800x600!
Could it be that the adapter's driver was fine, but the display had
been incorrectly displayed?

I went back to the display settings, advanced button and changed
the LCD panel from 800x600 to 1024x768 and then upped the
resolution accordingly... lo and behold! a gorgeous display!!! No
more thick fonts!!!

Again, thanks to all!
Saga



"Saga" wrote in message
...

Hi all,

I just got a DELL Inspiron 3000 (oldie but goodie) with a Pentium II
at 233MHz
and a display panel of 800x600.

I upgraded to Win 98SE, but the fonts on the screen don't look right.

Within a word, some letters are thicker than others, using more pixels
in their width
while other seems slender, using less pixels horizontally. The "thick"
letters look
choppy. This seems to happen arbitrarily, since an "n" in one word is
thick while
another "n" elsewhere is just right.

Display properties indicates:

Laptop Display Panel (800x600) on NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD
It is at true color (24 bit) (also tried it at Hi Color 16 bit)
Screen area is set at highest possible, 800x600

Any ideas on how to get the fonts to look better? Any recommendations
are
welcomed :-)


Saga






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Old February 20th 06, 03:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Screen fonts are thick and choppy

thks for posting back..



"Saga" wrote in message
...

First off, thank to all who replied, your help is much appreciated.

Here is what happened...

I selected the standard theme desktop, no change
I then went into device manager and checked for any yellow exclamation
points - all seemed to be well there :-)

I them ran SFC - setupx.dll was corrupted. Although I did not think
that had any relation to my display problem I restored it. I ran SFC
a second time and all was well.

I then went to Dell's web site and searched for drivers. I did find
one for the adapter that was released about a year after the one that
was currently installed. After some challenges, I managed to install
the driver, rebooted, but still no change.

I wondered if I missed something so I went to Google (again) and
did a search with the phrase:

dell inspiron 3000 user guide

Going down the list of results I see this brief semi description of
a result that mentioned the Inspiron 3000's features: model 233XT,
48MB RAM, 3GB HD XGA TFT 13" 1024x768 display, etc...

Wait a second! My display definitely said that it was 800x600!
Could it be that the adapter's driver was fine, but the display had
been incorrectly displayed?

I went back to the display settings, advanced button and changed
the LCD panel from 800x600 to 1024x768 and then upped the
resolution accordingly... lo and behold! a gorgeous display!!! No
more thick fonts!!!

Again, thanks to all!
Saga



"Saga" wrote in message
...

Hi all,

I just got a DELL Inspiron 3000 (oldie but goodie) with a Pentium II at
233MHz
and a display panel of 800x600.

I upgraded to Win 98SE, but the fonts on the screen don't look right.

Within a word, some letters are thicker than others, using more pixels in
their width
while other seems slender, using less pixels horizontally. The "thick"
letters look
choppy. This seems to happen arbitrarily, since an "n" in one word is
thick while
another "n" elsewhere is just right.

Display properties indicates:

Laptop Display Panel (800x600) on NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD
It is at true color (24 bit) (also tried it at Hi Color 16 bit)
Screen area is set at highest possible, 800x600

Any ideas on how to get the fonts to look better? Any recommendations are
welcomed :-)


Saga








 




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