One of my colleague mentioned he didn’t like ClearType in the new IE7, the same ClearType that’s on by default in Vista. I don’t mind it myself, but if you find it to be ‘blurry’, or just don’t want it on, you can disable it. Keep reading →

By default, the text below the icons on the Vista desktop use drop shadows. Sometimes this looks good, and sometimes it doesn’t. As an example, I changed my desktop to be solid white, to make doing screen captures for inclusion in these posts a bit easier. Notice when you do that, the white text with the drop shadow just looks ‘muddy’, and is difficult to read: Keep reading →