HELP: All my text is bold!

[jimbofoxman]

It's driving me nuts! All of a sudden my text on my computer screen are bold. Well not the website, but Icons, Menus, Headers, Thunderbird Email. The Email is all bold, which makes it hard to tell what's read and what's not read.

I have no clue what I did to this machine. Unless one of the kids did it.

 

[xSauronx]

i guess we should assume windows xp?

try poking around your display settings for a few minutes

 

[jimbofoxman]

Sorry...........XP. I did some poking in the display settings, changing font types, bold, size and even adjust the screen res. Didn't have any luck, but I will keep tinkering as maybe I am missing something stupid.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: jimbofoxman
Sorry...........XP. I did some poking in the display settings, changing font types, bold, size and even adjust the screen res. Didn't have any luck, but I will keep tinkering as maybe I am missing something stupid.

accessibility options maybe?

i dont use xp at home anymore and cant think of much off the top of my head

 

[jimbofoxman]

Uninstalling the driver, rebooting and redoing the driver did nothing either.

 

[jimbofoxman]

Some how I think the default installed windows xp themes are messed up. If I use a classic window style/theme............all my text looks fine. If I use a windows xp style/theme then the text is all bold again.

Any thoughts how to refresh the themes for xp?

 

[jimbofoxman]

Well, I think I figured it out after more searching with Google. Someone suggested to run REPAIR FONT FOLDER via the TWEAKUI utility. Seems to have done the trick.

 

[videopho]

try to system-restore to some earlier (known working) time.

 

[butch84]

Sounds like perhaps cleartype is enabled......