Loose rivets
3rd Apr 2009, 03:31
Oh, now what have I done?
When I reinstalled the original XP home, it all went quite well from the backup disc that I had made. I had to download the latest Sp, but that was it. As mentioned I lost my partitions, but that's not relevant.
The Home version now has poor quality text.
I generally run at 1024 X 768 into a 19" tube. 75 or 85 refresh rate makes no difference. dpi makes no difference where the text has not gone to thick black. 1280 X 1024 is really difficult to see because of the poor text quality.
If I look at the Googoil small blue writing under the search entry box, there's an A. About Googoil it says, but the A is in fine detail on the Pro version, yet the vertical-ish sides of the A on the Home version are made of four distinct vertical bars. In other words, all small writing looks like it was printed on a 9 pin dot matrix. I'm sure it wasn't like this before.
I've just spent 40 mins looking through the graphics section - NVidia FX5200 - and the ordinary menus, to no avail. I'm sure it wasn't like this before.
The only difference I can see is that the Home version has the NVidia menu system. While the Pro is a native driver. But this has never been an issue before, out of the dozens of Windows installations I've done.
Is there a button to be pressed that I've missed?
When I reinstalled the original XP home, it all went quite well from the backup disc that I had made. I had to download the latest Sp, but that was it. As mentioned I lost my partitions, but that's not relevant.
The Home version now has poor quality text.
I generally run at 1024 X 768 into a 19" tube. 75 or 85 refresh rate makes no difference. dpi makes no difference where the text has not gone to thick black. 1280 X 1024 is really difficult to see because of the poor text quality.
If I look at the Googoil small blue writing under the search entry box, there's an A. About Googoil it says, but the A is in fine detail on the Pro version, yet the vertical-ish sides of the A on the Home version are made of four distinct vertical bars. In other words, all small writing looks like it was printed on a 9 pin dot matrix. I'm sure it wasn't like this before.
I've just spent 40 mins looking through the graphics section - NVidia FX5200 - and the ordinary menus, to no avail. I'm sure it wasn't like this before.
The only difference I can see is that the Home version has the NVidia menu system. While the Pro is a native driver. But this has never been an issue before, out of the dozens of Windows installations I've done.
Is there a button to be pressed that I've missed?