Enable cleartype font smoothing

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This setting enables cleartype font smoothing.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
Cleartype is a font-enhancement technology that is capable of making fonts appear clearer. This font smoothing method gives better results on lcd display with windows, if the contrast value is adjusted between 900-1100. However, because cleartype still includes antialiasing support, you may see some improvement when you enable cleartype on a crt screen. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If any of the subkeys \controlpanel\desktop\ is not present, create it as explained below. Create a reg_sz string value name "fontsmoothing" (if this value doesn't exist). Right click on the option fontsmoothing, and from the drop down menu, select modify. In the modify dialog box, enter value data "2". Now, search for dword value name "fontsmoothingtype", create if not existing. Right-click on it and modify the value data with "0". This enables the setting. Logoff your system. For disabling, just set "0" in both registry entries. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.




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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Second, go to the <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\]</b> key, right-click on the "FontSmoothing" String value and click on "Modify".
Third, enter the value "2" in the text box and click on 'OK'.
Fourth, right-click on the "FontSmoothingType" DWORD value and click on "Modify".
Finally, enter the value "2" in the text box and click on 'OK'.


Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\]
  • Location: Current User
  • Value Name: FontSmoothing
  • Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
  • Enabled Value: 2
  • Disabled Value: 0
  • Action Type: Modified
  • Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\]
  • Location: Current User
  • Value Name: FontSmoothingType
  • Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
  • Enabled Value: 2
  • Disabled Value: 0
  • Action Type: Modified


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