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Windows 10 fuzzy Icon Titles. Why?
« on: March 14, 2018, 12:30:04 PM »
Earlier I tried to illustrate this and did not get it to be effective. This time I took screen shots of both Windows XP and Windows 10 on the same PC, a dell 755.

The screen shot below is from:
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Hope you can see it.
Now then, the pupae is to show the problem I have with Windows 10. I can hardly read the icon titles in Windows 10. variations in icon size do not help, Changing screen resolution makes only a small difference.

This is one of the reasons I still ha veto use Windows XP rather than Windows 10.

My vision lose cannot be corrected by eyeglasses. I ha veto have the fonts very clear and large. Notice how the Windows 10 fonts are fuzzy even for people with normal vision.
It is beyond me why Microsoft thinks fussy icon titles fare good for you.

I have another Windows 10 computer and get the same thing. Fuzzy icon titles.

Is there some way to tell Windows 10 not to make the icon title fuzzy?   :)
 

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Re: Windows 10 fuzzy Icon Titles. Why?
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2018, 12:51:16 PM »
They look quite good to these eyes. Have you tried Right-click on the desktop and selecting Personalize?
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Re: Windows 10 fuzzy Icon Titles. Why?
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2018, 12:53:28 PM »
The text is black in XP and white in Win 10...customise accordingly...
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Re: Windows 10 fuzzy Icon Titles. Why?
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2018, 03:01:09 PM »
The text is black in XP and white in Win 10...customise accordingly...
Where? How?
In Windows 10 settings I can not find a way to make the icon fonts better or a different effect or color.
What references I find tell me to abandon the scheme used by Windows 10 and install some kind of their-party thing.  :(
https://www.sitepoint.com/icon-fonts-vs-svg-debate/
Is he talking about what I want or something else?
Any help will b e welcome.  :)

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Re: Windows 10 fuzzy Icon Titles. Why?
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2018, 03:29:39 PM »
As stated above...Control Panel/Personalise....you'll have to experiment.
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Re: Windows 10 fuzzy Icon Titles. Why?
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2018, 04:51:14 PM »
You cannot directly set the text colour. It will be either black or White. There might be a registry hack but all I can find is for 8.1, and doesn't work with 10 anymore.

But that choice is based on the underlying solid colour of the desktop. With Win10, you change this in personalization options with the Desktop background option; if you choose solid and set the colour to say, Orange; the icon text color will be black. if you set your desktop background to your desired image afterwards the icon colour should remain black.

You can remove the drop shadow in Advanced System Settings (Windows key+Break, Advanced System Settings, "Settings" under "Performance", and uncheck "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop".
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Re: Windows 10 fuzzy Icon Titles. Why?
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2018, 05:04:05 PM »
Thanks, BC.
You are on the right track. In XP I had to change the background luminosity to a value above medium grey. Light grey or sky l blue.
Here is a important like just found.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start-winpc/windows-10-creators-update-change-desktop-icon/2853a807-5fb3-421f-96b2-39529b8278c4

Since the screen management tab has been removed from the control panel with the arrival of Creators Update, you will find the settings to handle the screen under Settings > System > Display.

Also take a look at these articles:
    Windows 10 accessibility help
    Make Windows easier to see

If these settings do not meet your needs regarding your customizations, you might try to change settings from Windows Registry.

So, as a first step, Microsoft recommends that you first back up the registry: How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

Hopefully this is the answer.   :D

 

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Re: Windows 10 fuzzy Icon Titles. Why?
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2018, 07:53:42 PM »
Does not work for me.  :(
It would seem that the build I have does not respond to  settings.
Here is another link I will try next.
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-enable-or-disable-shadows-for-texts-on-desktop-in-windows-2/
It looks like registry edit thing. I loath registry edits.   >:(


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Re: Windows 10 fuzzy Icon Titles. Why?
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2018, 08:00:32 PM »
I was able to get black text, however, I haven't gotten it to stay when putting a desktop background.

First I disabled the option to use drop shadows that I described.

Then I changed the background to solid colour and chose Orange.

At this point, the text was still white and still had a drop shadow. But when I logged out and logged back in, the text was black with no drop shadow.

But if I put an  image background the text goes back to white with a drop shadow.
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Re: Windows 10 fuzzy Icon Titles. Why?
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2018, 10:12:47 PM »
Good work BC! I never got that far.  :(

The shadow effect was intended to make text visible when a background image might make it hard to see. So your discovery would indicate MS has some code that puts white text with shadow when there is a background image.

There was something in one of the insider builds that would allow change of text font and other things like that. But it is not in my build, as far as I can tell.
edit link -> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start-winpc/windows-10-creators-update-change-desktop-icon/2853a807-5fb3-421f-96b2-39529b8278c4

Anyway, I give up. I will stop looking at the Windows 10 desktop and just look in the metro thing instead. Text in the metro thing is always very sharp.

So, I am done here. Thanks for your attention.  :)

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Re: Windows 10 fuzzy Icon Titles. Why?
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2018, 10:37:04 AM »
I wonder if the display adapter driver is up to date and whether or not  you have tried all of the screen res options.(fuzzy) A darker backround would help but get it. I believe there is an option  in system properties under performance and then performance options. This gives you loads of options for visuals. Maybe this still exists in 10.