Windows 8 text hardly legible

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I've just taken delivery of a Dell laptop running windows 8.1 with a 1920x1080 15.6" screen.

Straight away I noticed that almost all text on windows menus, shortcut names, on browsers etc. is almost illegible, like pixels are missing. I've been on the phone to Dell support for a several hours and they have taken remote control of the laptop and tried loads of things which have made not one iota of difference.

I had to explain to them that zooming everything to 200% was not an acceptable solution, especially as I had seen pin-sharp text on an equivalent Lenovo laptop recently.

Photos and videos are fine...the problem is isolated to text.

So has anyone else had this problem and knows how to resolve it?

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Thanks timbo, I should have mentioned I have already tried this as well with no improvement.

I thnik it's a bit more fundamental than windows setting but not a hardware issue.

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C0ffin D0dger said:

They fked something up in Windows 8.1 that made a lot of applications look as if the text is blurry. It's simple to fix but a right PITA none the less.

http://superuser.com/questions/661655/applications...

Funnily enough I discovered that on youtube yesterday and tried it this morning.

It made no difference whatsoever.

I spoke to Dell on the phone today and they offered to send me windows 8 on a usb stick so that I can reinstall the operating system myself. They said it would arrive on Wednesday next week.

They also offered a refund.

Guess which one I'm going for?!?

Now the hunt is back on for a 1920x1080 laptop that works.

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Sheepshanks said:

Do you happen to know which model it was?

I sent a Lenovo back as it was as if looking through lenses smeared with Vaseline. I didn't have time to investigate properly.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/laptop/3590500/lenovo-ideapad-z50-70-budget-laptop-review/

Lenovo Z50-70 with i3 4th gen chip.

Whilst the text was pin-sharp, the screen was far from perfect. The viewing angles were atrocious and you couldn't clearly see text and picture at the same, eg. on BBC News.

I forever found myself tilting the screen to view the picture properly and then tilting it back again to the read the text.

The keyboard felt a bit flimsy and the case had a horrid sharp edge but other than that, it's a good laptop.

It performed really well, ran cool and never seemed hobbled by the i3 chip.

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I'll probably get a replacement laptop from PC Specialist.

I recently bought a PC from them and it's been faultless.