Blurry text

I have the same issue. Prior to win10, my dual Dell 30" 2560x1600 monitors had amazingly crisp fonts. Since winddows 10, many apps fonts are so blurred, they are unusable for any lenght of time. It seems that MS have crippled the desktop fonts to make it more compatible with windows phones and tablets. This is ironic considering relatively speaking, noone uses windows phones and tablets. The only solution I have found is to make all apps with blurred text not use the blurry scaling MS are using. to do this:

1. right click on the short cut of the app with blurred fonts
2. hit properties
3. compatibility tab
4. check "disable display scaling on high DPI Settings"

this is not a solution, it is a poor workaround. The full solution is to go with Mac who don't render desktop apps for tens of millions of users unusable for the sake of a hand full of windows phone and tablet users. A second best solution is to upgrade back to windows 7. Appart from fast boot up and shutdown, I dont think windows 10 adds a single feature or benefit to desktop users, only ever worse UI and UX (for business users at least)

anybody got the solution ? i tired of this blurry text and want to go back to Win 7

While this is marked "solved" it really isn't. I have found no
solution. I'm using high contrast, as that is the only way I can
see the type on the screen with my bad eyes.

While this works, a lot of web pages & aps are missing text & graphics.

Wish I had my windows 7 back now, such a disappointment.

msny said:

While this is marked "solved" it really isn't. I have found no
solution. I'm using high contrast, as that is the only way I can
see the type on the screen with my bad eyes.

While this works, a lot of web pages & aps are missing text & graphics.

Wish I had my windows 7 back now, such a disappointment.

Even Windows 8.1 do better than Win 10 in Anti Aliasing

I would agree that this isn't official fixed for me either.

I have a GTX 1070 and an ultrawide LG 2K display, and a second BenQ 1080p monitor.

I had no issues with windows 10, until I performed my annual fresh install. (I believe my first installation my have been 8.1 first to get the free windows 10 upgrade they were offering last year.) The first thing I noticed was how certain elements like device manager, utorrent, installation splash screens were all fuzzy.

The only thing that has worked for me is installing the program that runs at startup (I think its on page 4-5 of this thread) but it works! My screens are crystal clear. The one thing I have noticed is under 'display settings' my scaling slider is greyed out and my 2k monitor is set at 225% and my 1080p is 175%, but it looks great so I'm not complaining. I haven't tested any games yet though, so hopefully that doesn't interfere.

TLDR
The XP Explorer DPI fix worked for me.
I registered just to make this comment.

t0nym0ntana83 said:

I would agree that this isn't official fixed for me either.

I have a GTX 1070 and an ultrawide LG 2K display, and a second BenQ 1080p monitor.

I had no issues with windows 10, until I performed my annual fresh install. (I believe my first installation my have been 8.1 first to get the free windows 10 upgrade they were offering last year.) The first thing I noticed was how certain elements like device manager, utorrent, installation splash screens were all fuzzy.

The only thing that has worked for me is installing the program that runs at startup (I think its on page 4-5 of this thread) but it works! My screens are crystal clear. The one thing I have noticed is under 'display settings' my scaling slider is greyed out and my 2k monitor is set at 225% and my 1080p is 175%, but it looks great so I'm not complaining. I haven't tested any games yet though, so hopefully that doesn't interfere.

TLDR
The XP Explorer DPI fix worked for me.
I registered just to make this comment.

Me using intel HD 5500 .. 768p and none of them works ..... it look like Win 10 better for >1080p monitor

Just a heads-up: As of today, the only thing that truly works is creating a task with that .bat file posted here on page 5. All the other solutions do NOT work correctly for me. I find it insulting that Microsoft has not fixed this issue in a proper way yet.

I had a problems to run the extended monitor with 100% and cant find DPI scaling from the Outlook 2016 (O 365).
So i made the external monitor as my main (HP E271i) and BOOM, no more fuzzywuzzy.

So if you dont wanna mess up with the 100-125-150% text size stuff, you can always swap the main display from the options.

*** Apparently this is a repeat of an earlier post. Reputation added to the dude. Name's confusing, but it's there, and it worked for me... Might as well be at the end of the list as well :\ too many pages to wade through...

I was able to resolve this on my machine. Instead of using the slider in the display properties, there's a buried hyperlink a couple clicks past that page. I'm not sure why it works... It's allowing you to custom scale the DPI and should effectively be the same thing... But it works.

Hopefully it does for you as well.

1. Right Click on the Desktop, select 'Display Settings'
2. Scroll down, select 'Advanced display settings'
3. Scroll down, select 'Advanced sizing of text and other items'
4. Within the paragraph under 'Change size of items', click the third hyperlink that says 'set a custom scaling level'
5. Type '120' in the drop down box and wait for the system to tag it with the '%' sign
6. Click 'Ok', in the next window 'Apply', and then choose to sign out
7. When you log back in, navigate back to the setting by repeating steps 1-4
8. Type '125' in the drop down box and wait for the system to tag it with the '%' sign
9. Click 'Ok', in the next window 'Apply', and then choose to sign out

When you log back in it should be fine, but the slider will no longer work... You have to disable custom DPI scaling for that slider to work but whatever. Leave it and hopefully you're good.

NOTE: these steps are what I did... You may be able to get away with not using steps 5, 6, and 7. Good luck!

EDITS: Typos and such