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On 10/22/17 3:42 AM, Bob Henson wrote:
On 22/10/2017 7:00 AM, Ken Springer wrote: On 10/18/17 2:09 AM, Bob Henson wrote: Having finally be forced to use Windows 10 (new computer - the only thing that could make me!) I have managed to sort out most of its many problems other than the one which is a major problem to me at my advanced age - all the standard text is am anaemic grey, not black. I've read umpteen answers to the problem online, most of which involve trying to use the high contrast themes and none of which (so far) have worked without causing me more problems than they are worth. Increasing the text size to, say, 125% helps me a lot with the microscopically small text size (19" 1920 x 1080 screen) but makes the text dramatically paler grey and hopelessly blurred. Naturally, I've made sure that I have the latest drivers installed, and adjusted the screen settings as well as possible. I've tuned the Cleartype settings to the optimum. Graphics in games are remarkably good with the GTX 980 Ti 6Gb card, and I can adjust the text within some programs (or parts of them) to look a bit better using different fonts. Before I resign myself to it never being any better than this, has anyone any ideas where I could look for a way to change the Windows 10 global text settings to something more useable? Is there, for example, an easy registry hack to change the global text colour from grey to black (and perhaps to a more legible font than Segoe - albeit that is a secondary issue, it's the colour that's important)? I imagine I'm on a hopeless quest - but maybe I've missed something simple in my research? I was also going to suggest the Advanced System Font Changer, but was beat to the punch. I was also poking around a windows10 forum, and found 2 possibilities. 1. One poster said that after 2 passes through the process of adjusting Clear Type, his problem was solved. 2. Another poster used the control panel for his graphics card, and adjusted the gamma. Raising the gamma gave lighter text, lowering gave him darker text. No promises on either of these. LOL Hmm. Why it should work I don't know, but adjusting Cleartype again did produce an improvement. Good tip! Glad it at least helped. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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Bob Henson wrote:
Ken Springer wrote: 1. One poster said that after 2 passes through the process of adjusting Clear Type, his problem was solved. 2. Another poster used the control panel for his graphics card, and adjusted the gamma. Raising the gamma gave lighter text, lowering gave him darker text. I'll certainly try them - the latter sounds the most promising, except that lowering the gamma may spoil some of the games graphics somewhat. Video games should have their own internal gamma adjust. In fact, in the games that I play and which all have a gamma setting under their video settings, if the game crashes then I'm stuck at the higher gamma (I hate squinting at the monitor and getting headaches for overly dark places in the game) when thrown back to the Windows desktop. I have to use Catalyst, ancilliary software for the video driver of an AMD video card, to restore color controls back to the driver's default settings (well, those configured using Catalyst). |
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On 22/10/2017 11:05 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Bob Henson wrote: Ken Springer wrote: 1. One poster said that after 2 passes through the process of adjusting Clear Type, his problem was solved. 2. Another poster used the control panel for his graphics card, and adjusted the gamma. Raising the gamma gave lighter text, lowering gave him darker text. I'll certainly try them - the latter sounds the most promising, except that lowering the gamma may spoil some of the games graphics somewhat. Video games should have their own internal gamma adjust. In fact, in the games that I play and which all have a gamma setting under their video settings, if the game crashes then I'm stuck at the higher gamma (I hate squinting at the monitor and getting headaches for overly dark places in the game) when thrown back to the Windows desktop. I have to use Catalyst, ancilliary software for the video driver of an AMD video card, to restore color controls back to the driver's default settings (well, those configured using Catalyst). OK, that hadn't occurred to me. I've just used the Nvidea control panel and changed from "other applications control the colour" to Nvidia control. The gamma was already set low on the slider scale, but I cut it further and there was a distinct improvement in the blackness. If this has no effect on anything else (like yours, my eyes can't stand the darker, night-time episodes of games) or if I can adjust the gamma from within the other programs, then I'm more or less where I want to be. I've just tried removing the font changing extension from Thunderbird before writing this and am now near enough to where I was before with Windows 7. Even text within Chrome (which was by far the worst beforehand) is better with the extension I mentioned and the gamma change. I guess I (and some of the many others also whinging about it the grey text) owe Windows 10 a bit of a reluctant apology - it's not quite as bad as I thought. I wouldn't go so far as to say I like it though. :-) Thanks again to your and everyone else who replied. -- Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England Why is there only one Competition Commission? |
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