Disable ClearType font smoothing in Vista

Vista fonts fuzzy blurry unclear!

On all of my Vista installs I notice after about 2 hours of using them that I get a headache. I finally worked out it was the new way vista smoothes out fonts.

Using the GUI to turn this feature off didn’t work on any of my computers so I found this registry hack.


1. Open Registry Editor
2. Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel and Desktop.
3. Set FontSmoothingType to 1.
4. Set FontSmoothing to 1.
5. Reboot.

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