Windows 10: Blurry text

Glad that it did help *Smile

 

I've searched through the web and I found this great tool that fixed the blurry text that I had after changing my scale to 125% in Windows 10.

Simply download the file from the following page, run it and and choose the Windows 8.1 DPI scaling option and the required scaling level and then restart your computer/laptop.

Tool website: Windows 10 DPI blurry / fuzzy text font fix - XP Explorer

Direct link to the tool: http://www.xpexplorer.com/installers...10_DPI_FIX.exe

Have a great day *Smile

 

Thank you! *Smile

Solved or temporarily solved *Smile

 

This guy posting this software "fix" is all over the forum. Are the mods aware of this? Has this been tested? We shouldn't have to have a 3rd party "fix" software to correct this.

 

I searched all over the web until I found this tool and then scanned it and tried it, and found it working without any issues and fixed this annoying problem for me!
So I tried to help the people here in this forum who were suffering from it, so I posted it to all the posts that asked for a fix, just to help them nothing more!

 

Well, I perform a full system scan daily and it gives me nothing.

I fully agree with you on that we should not rely on a 3rd party utility to fix this.

Can you please explain to me why MS has not implemented this feature on Windows 10? *Smile

I, as an Insider, have reported this AT LEAST fifty (50) times!

Why is it so difficult for them to do it? *Smile This utility does it! It fixes it! How can they not??

However, if someone can actually test this utility, research it, and report what it actually does, we would all benefit!
The only thing I can do is scan it, and scan my entire system, with Antiviruses and Anti-malware etc programs.

 

If you don't want to use a third party tool, just create a .cmd file with the content of

Code: REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v DpiScalingVer /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00001018 /f REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Win8DpiScaling /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001 /f REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v LogPixels /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000078 /f[/quote] and put it in your startup folder. Voila! You have your own fix now. This is what I linked in the previous page as well.

The problem lies with DpiScalingVer and Win8DpiScaling keys in the respective section of registry. These keys used to change respecting what scale option you did choose in Windows 8.1 (Win8DpiScaling entry being "Let me choose one display scale for all stuff", it's not even present in Windows 10), but now only LogPixels entry is affected when a scaling option is selected.

So in fact we manually edit those keys to have what we had in the past. There are no negative side effects or anything, and it's gonna probably be fixed in the future.

 

and put it in your startup folder. Voila! You have your own fix now. This is what I linked in the previous page as well.

The problem lies with DpiScalingVer and Win8DpiScaling keys in the respective section of registry. This keys used to change respecting what scale option you did choose in Windows 8.1 (Win8DpiScaling entry being "Let me choose one display scale for all stuff", it's not even present in Windows 10), but now only LogPixels entry is affected when a scaling option is selected.

So in fact we manually edit those keys to have what we had in the past. There are no negative side effects or anything, and it's gonna probably be fixed in the future.[/quote]
Hey, thank you for this, I will definitely try it on my "secondary" Windows 10 Pro installation, after a little while, when I will mount back my second SSD! I keep that Windows 10 Pro installation almost completely untouched! Because I want to test the updates and see what has been fixed and what not, each time.

So, I will try your suggestion today! *Smile

Can you please tell me how can I create this .cmd file and where exactly should I place it (save it)?

Thanks!!

*Smile

 

Just create a text file and copy/paste what I quoted in code in my message. Then change its file extension from .txt to .cmd (you should disable "Hide extensions for known file types" in Folder Options if you can't see the file extensions).

After that press Windows Key+R and type "shell:startup". Copy the .cmd file you created here and you're done. You need to restart twice for this file to take effect - first time it runs to insert the codes into the registry, and in second time the inserted codes actually start working (logging off may work for this as well).

Note that you may need to add this file to the excluded/trusted apps list in your security software (I had to with Kaspersky Total Security 2016), if you don't it'll probably get deleted because it gets identified as a threat trying to change the registry.

Why do we need to add this program to the startup? Because every time the PC starts DpiScalingVer reverts back to its default value, rendering our fix useless. So we set it to automatically change every start.

A command screen will flash for 0.1-0.5 secs on every startup but I think the result outweighs this small annoyance.

p.s. Again all credits go to those rafalek/Fra31 guys in MDL forums.

 

All right, I have applied the tweak Jormvngandr suggested in both of my Windows 10 Pro installations and I can confirm that it works fine and exactly as described *Smile

Specifically:

- On my Insider Win 10 Pro OS I have not made any modifications or tweaks and the ONLY programs I have installed are CCleaner and Chrome. The utility mentioned in this thread was never installed on this OS. After updating it today, and observing that the blurriness has not been fixed with today's update either, I applied the tweak. It took three reboots to get applied but it got applied and it works great. I have not added an exclusion to Windows Defender, neither have I scanned this installation after the tweak, but it has not deleted the .cmd file. So, all well on this one!

- Then I applied the same tweak on my main OS. Again, Win 10 Pro but customized and modified this time. I first deleted the folder of the XPExplorer utility, cleaned everything (and the Registry) with CCleaner, rebooted, set both of my monitors to 100% (default), and then applied the tweak. It works fine! In this main OS I have all the programs I use, so browsers, Office 2016, Adobe CS6 and other programs. It displays all of them nicely and with the appropriate (125% custom) text size.

So, thank you for this tweak, it works great. It's true that the CMD appears for a fraction of a second. I will keep this tweak for about 6 months, waiting for MS to fix this. If they won't fix it I will reuse XPExplorer, permanently this time.


Seriously, does anybody know why MS is not fixing this? I remember lots of reports on Windows Feedback in regard to blurry text. IF it is just a couple of lines of code, as it seems, why aren't they dealing with it?

EDIT:
After a full system scan with Win Defender, no issues were reported and the .cmd file was not deleted. With other antiviruses though perhaps an exclusion must be added.

 

I have read many topics and tried some of the methods were suggested. I don't know which one of them actually solved this problem but it doesn't matter because finally, it seems fine now. Anw, you can find all of those methods I've tried here:
http://moretags.blogspot.com/2015/08...solutions.html
Hope it helps!

 

Just wow. That guy seems to have copied/pasted my post here above (though he added some pics, let's give that to him).

 

Thanks Jorm, I've been suffering with blurry text on some apps on my Windows 10 install, but your .cmd patch fixed it!

 

Can you create one for people who use the 100% dpi scale ? When I use your fix it looks like everything is back to 125% even though my settings says its 100%... for example my windows bar on the bottom is now double of its size... gigantic.

 

I have experienced the same problem as described by the OP, and searched the internet for a solution. I did figure out how to adjust certain softwares via the properties/compatibility/Disable display scaling... route. Yay! But the problem ained in other windows which are apparently generated by microsoft programs which do not offer access to properties/compatibility configuration options. I have been waiting for microsoft to update windows 10 and fix the problem, but it does not seem to be happening. Then I found this thread, and the webpage:
Windows 10 DPI blurry / fuzzy text font fix - XP Explorer
That little fix worked for me! Thanks!

I cannot truly understand the description of the registry changes that led to this issue, but it seems simple enough. Is there any way for ordinary users to lodge complaints with microsoft and maybe inspire an update? Some of us are still driving a desktop!
I