Windows 10: Blurry text

I have a Dell U3011 monitor using dual Nvidia GeForce GTX680's running in SLI. I too have the same problem with fuzzy text. I'm running in a 2560x1600 resolution and normally have cleartype and text at 125%. It doesn't seem to make much difference what I do, I still have fuzzy text...

 

I tried the fix that's work only at 125% (and lower) but until 126% (so 150% also) this is blurry. Maybe a windows family edition issue? Can someone confirms that's work at 150% in family edition?
(I have a 1920x1080 )
Thanks

 

Hi
I had that problem in my Windows 10 Enterprise X64 and solved it by easy way:
-RegEdit >> HKEY_CURRENT_USER >> Control Panel >> Desktop >> Edit Dword : Win8DpiScaling : Change its value from: 0 To: 1
Then logout and login again.
Done

 

I after searching earlier this year I could not find a fix. I searched again and it looks like someone created a very simple program to lay the issue to rest. I ran it and performed reboot and VOILA!

I have 3 monitors:
1. 27" 1080p
2. 28" Samsung 4k
3. 20" Dell in Portrait

Monitor's 1 and 3 were blurry and driving me nuts. I was about switch back to Windows 7. I tried all the scaling options, cleartype and what not. Anyways Here is a link to the program.

Enjoy!

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

 

I found a way to hide the batch file at startup. If you already have the batch in C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup, move it from there to another location (you will need it). If you still haven't created the batch, do it saving the following in a .bat file:
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] Now do this:
1. Open Task Scheduler from Start.
2. Click on "Create Task..." on the right hand pane.
3. Give it a name like "Fix DPI blur".
4. Select "Run whether user is logged on or not".
5. Go to the "Triggers" tab and click on "New...".
6. On the "Begin the task" drop-down menu select "At startup" and hit OK.
7. Go to the "Actions" tab and click on "New...".
8. Browse for your .bat script and hit OK.
9. On the "Conditions" tab you might want to uncheck "Start the task only if the computer is on AC power".
10. Hit OK. In case you are prompted for a password, type your account password and hit OK.
11. You might need a couple of reboots. After that you're done.

Hope this helps. *Smile

 

First, thanks to all for the suggestions/fixes. My Win 10 screens are no longer blurry. Here is what I did: set customized size to 125, cut and pasted the cmd solution ( tried the software fix as well, which also worked) and am go to go! Except, when on my bank website ( use Chrome) the bank transactions are still blurry and UNREADABLE when printed. My Chrome setting is at 125 zoom with an ASUS 24" DVI connected monitor. Curiously, it happens with the 'Print This Page' option on the site, same as print screen. Chrome print choices: save as PDF and print as PDF, still result in unreadable numbers. Have tried to change fonts in Chrome with no success.

Any comment or suggestion would be appreciated.

 

Hello again! *Smile

I am here to tell you that my blurry text issue has been fixed! *Smile I'm SO happy and SUPER excited! *Biggrin

Just today I have tried it out of curiosity! I was used to "automatically" apply the .cmd file given in this thread. But today, on Preview build 10576, I have deleted that .cmd file and just applied a Custom scaling level of 125%. Like this:





Here is the result, which I consider absolutely fine for my system:






As you can observe the text in all the various Windows Components I could put in a screenshot is crystal clear and in the appropriate size and proportion in comparison to each other. For example, the Menus in File Explorer look normal and totally acceptable now! I have also opened Office 2016, Word, Outlook, Excel, and the menus and all the text sizes are great!

Then I went and applied the same settings in TP build 10565, and of course, I have deleted the .cmd file and the Registry value, from this OS, as well. This is my main OS. It works there, too!! *Biggrin I have rebooted for approx. ten (10) times in both Operating Systems, after the deletion of the .cmd file. It still works!

So, now I consider this matter officially solved *Smile

Thank you, Microsoft!

PS: this issue is monitor specific - you can see my monitor's specifications in the first post.

 

Good news, Joanne. Took a while but it seems you can relax now.

 

Hi,
Just play with your screen settings:
Course and Fine
Set both of them until your view, is perfect
I had the same issue and after setting clear text, and then the Course an Fine settings on my Monitor,
my text was clear as crystal.
Cheers

 

I upgraded from RTM (10240) to build 10576 and can confirm this is fixed on my machine.

 

I had to register myself in the forum just to thank you Jorm. It simply solved all my issues on Windows 10!

Besides the problem of blurry text, I was experiencing blurry images on Windows Photo Viewer (see pic below).

Photos vs Windows Photo Viewer




The funny thing in this issue is that unlike everybody else, pics were just fine on the Photos app and blurry on Windows Photo Viewer. I'm saying that based on the extensive google search I've gone through to find a workaround. There were many users complaining of blurry images on Photos App but not on Windows Photo Viewer.
Anyway, Jorm .cmd worked like a charm to fix this too!

The other problem the fix solved for me was the innapropriate way Google Chrome was showing some pages and eventually omitting features on these pages! (see pics below for better understanding - ignore the language please)

This is how the page should look like:
Windows 7




And this is how it looked like before applying the fix:
Windows 10




It was happening in many websites which have these "navigation arrows".
Now Chrome shows them as they should be, just perfect!

So thank you everybody for all your replies and suggestions! Without your interest in solving this problem, we probably wouldn't have figured this out.
A special thanks to Jorm who posted, in my opinion, the best solution so far. Now I can finally have my Windows 10 working properly!

PS: adj592, I'm using your workaround to hide the batch file at startup and it's working just fine! Thank you!

 

You're welcome, glad that helped. *Biggrin

 

Can I just clarify.
Does the above mean that Microsoft has actually addressed this issue in a recent build of W10? And that if I now go from W7 to W10 I don't need to do any 'hacks' or special procedures? (I upgraded a month ago and went back to W7 because of the awful blurry text).
Thank you.

 

Yes. For me the problem no longer exists on current version (10586) and so the workarounds are no longer required.

 

Thanks.
I've successfully upgraded, and this time W10 actually found my printers!

One remaining hitch. Text is 'spiky' in Edge. But it's perfect in Chrome and IE11 if I hunt its .exe file and launch it.
I was going to try the right click on properties move but I can't find Edge.exe, does anyone know where it lives?

Many thanks.