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The good news is, corporate sent me a new notebook. The bad news is... they sent me a new notebook. Transferring software is always so much fun - memo to Microsoft - get that bozo who thought up the registry over here, and let me slap him around a few times. Are you listening Scoble? Your software people may have found application level ini files somehow inelegant, but they allow for easy movement. Sigh. Moving on from that nightmare, there's the font nightmare. What's with the extra jaggy fonts on XP? My old notebook doesn't look like this, and yes - I tried setting ClearType - exactly zero effect. Grrrrr.
Update: I found the ClearType setting turned off under "effects" when right clicking on the desktop; I guess the MSDN pages on the MS site that claimed to be turning that on were not completely accurate. In any case, it looks better now. Still mystifying - was it off by default from MS, or from my IT group's build?
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