FIX | Windows 10 Blurry Text and Windows!

Dch48 said:

If your text is blurry just run the cleartype wizard and pick all the examples that look the best. That should fix it. It did for me.

I did that, it was already set to the best (clearest) settings.

This is really aggravating. Never had this problem in Windows before. That's what makes me think it is a driver issue. Every Windows OS I ever used (from Windows 95 - 8.1) installed appropriate drivers (drivers came pre-installed). Now, with Windows 10 "pure" install, I have this problem.

No, Probe, this most probably isn't a driver issue! Nor is it a cleartype issue. Please, follow the recommendations above (changing the HKCU registry entries).

Best regards, and good luck!

Probe said:

I did that, it was already set to the best (clearest) settings.

This is really aggravating. Never had this problem in Windows before. That's what makes me think it is a driver issue. Every Windows OS I ever used (from Windows 95 - 8.1) installed appropriate drivers (drivers came pre-installed). Now, with Windows 10 "pure" install, I have this problem.

EShirou said:

After you apply your desired font size in windows settings (like 125% dpi, I use this with 125%) > Open notepad, paste this into it:

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

then save it as <yourname>.cmd somewhere on your HDD > open local ground policy editor (gpedit.msc from search bar) > In user config ... > go to Windows Settings > Scripts (login/logout) > In the window on the right double click on Login to open it (because we want this to be applied every time you login) > in Scripts tab, select Add > then in new window select Browser > navigate to where you saved your cmd file and select it > then just press Ok > Apply > Ok > Then sign out/reboot your pc > Login to your account for the first time after adding this script so it will be applied > then if it will not work, Sign out/reboot again and from now on it should work every time (works for me).

Thank you. I've been using this solution for 3 days and this is the ONLY solution that fixed the problem for me.

Other things I tried that did not work:
- Changing/uninstalling drivers (drivers are not the issue).
- Making the above .cmd file and adding it to startup items or the task scheduler (would only work every OTHER time I logged in).
- I couldn't even download the "windows10_dpi_blurry_fix.xpexplorer.com" .exe as I get a "server not found" message every time (plus I don't want to run an strange.exe file) even if no virus are detected.

FunkyBrewster said:

I couldn't even download the "windows10_dpi_blurry_fix.xpexplorer.com" .exe as I get a "server not found" message every time (plus I don't want to run an strange.exe file) even if no virus are detected.

The link works fine (something is interfering in your system, an antivirus, browser extension etc.) and the .exe is perfectly safe. All programs you/we download are "strange .exe's" anyway.

The xpexplorer exe is a godsend. It worked on my laptop. I tried the other remedies such as ClearType etc.. all doesn't work.

EShirou said:

Don't use this if you don't like exe starting with your system, taking resources, etc. also it might be unsafe. I found this a while ago somewhere via google, but it said to put this into autostart, sadly it doesn't work with autostart if you don't sign out after you login and the login again (and sometimes it doesn't work at all).

After you apply your desired font size in windows settings (like 125% dpi, I use this with 125%) > Open notepad, paste this into it:

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

then save it as <yourname>.cmd somewhere on your HDD > open local ground policy editor (gpedit.msc from search bar) > In user config (im translating this from my language so there might be little translation differences) > go to Windows Settings > Scripts (login/logout) > In the window on the right double click on Login to open it (because we want this to be applied every time you login) > in Scripts tab, select Add > then in new window select Browser > navigate to where you saved your cmd file and select it > then just press Ok > Apply > Ok > Then sign out/reboot your pc > Login to your account for the first time after adding this script so it will be applied > then if it will not work, Sign out/reboot again and from now on it should work every time (works for me).

Made an account just to thank you for this. Works fantastically well!!!

EShirou said:

After you apply your desired font size in windows settings (like 125% dpi, I use this with 125%) > Open notepad, paste this into it:

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

then save it as <yourname>.cmd somewhere on your HDD > open local ground policy editor (gpedit.msc from search bar) > In user config (im translating this from my language so there might be little translation differences) > go to Windows Settings > Scripts (login/logout) > In the window on the right double click on Login to open it (because we want this to be applied every time you login) > in Scripts tab, select Add > then in new window select Browser > navigate to where you saved your cmd file and select it > then just press Ok > Apply > Ok > Then sign out/reboot your pc > Login to your account for the first time after adding this script so it will be applied > then if it will not work, Sign out/reboot again and from now on it should work every time (works for me).

Good workaround. Thanks a lot.

Per

Probe said:

Windows 10 has the fix for this, simply click on Settings> Display> "Change the size of texts, apps and other items".
Move the slider to the left for 100% setting, not 125%.

hi
i have tried your fix ,but the tool makes it better , i mean set windows 8.1 dpi and it's no blurry anymore

EShirou said:

Don't use this if you don't like exe starting with your system, taking resources, etc. also it might be unsafe. I found this a while ago somewhere via google, but it said to put this into autostart, sadly it doesn't work with autostart if you don't sign out after you login and the login again (and sometimes it doesn't work at all).

After you apply your desired font size in windows settings (like 125% dpi, I use this with 125%) > Open notepad, paste this into it:

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

then save it as <yourname>.cmd somewhere on your HDD > open local ground policy editor (gpedit.msc from search bar) > In user config (im translating this from my language so there might be little translation differences) > go to Windows Settings > Scripts (login/logout) > In the window on the right double click on Login to open it (because we want this to be applied every time you login) > in Scripts tab, select Add > then in new window select Browser > navigate to where you saved your cmd file and select it > then just press Ok > Apply > Ok > Then sign out/reboot your pc > Login to your account for the first time after adding this script so it will be applied > then if it will not work, Sign out/reboot again and from now on it should work every time (works for me).

Thanks @EShirou for the tip, looks great but I have Win 10 Home for the moment and no access to gpedit, any workaround?

Also, do you have the same kind of hack for multiple monitors with different DPI scaling for each?
It's an absolute nightmare here. I am using a laptop which I would like 125% scaling for and an external monitor for which 100% is fine. Most app change size between the two (very weird), but there are issues with some that will preserve main monitor scaling on secondary one (I'm looking at you PowerPoint 2016!) and therefore look huge on the external large display with extra scaling.

Tomaka said:

Thanks @EShirou for the tip, looks great but I have Win 10 Home for the moment and no access to gpedit, any workaround?

I made a scheduled task in Task Scheduler, scheduled at log in (and run with highest privileges,
though I don't know if it is necessary).

regards

Per