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Certain fonts on server show in bad quality
After some recent windows updates (over 100 so no idea which one) all users on one windows 2008 (not R2) server have really bad quality Arial font display issues
Selecting other fonts, those appear normal and fine... seems to be any version of Arial
What i've done so far:
copied all of the arial font files from another server that doesn't have this issue, overwriting the ones on this server, rebooted, no change
copied ALL the fonts from another server, rebooted, no change
reverted to a previous version of the video card driver, rebooted, no change
updated to the latest video card driver, rebooted, no change
ran the microsoft EU Expansion Font Update, rebooted, no change
(http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16083)
HKCU/control panel/desktop/fontsmoothin g = 2 (changing to zero has no effect)
beyond just the some-bold-some-not, squished together, look specifically at the "o" in the size 10 example below, see how they have weird dots
example picture posted below:
Selecting other fonts, those appear normal and fine... seems to be any version of Arial
What i've done so far:
copied all of the arial font files from another server that doesn't have this issue, overwriting the ones on this server, rebooted, no change
copied ALL the fonts from another server, rebooted, no change
reverted to a previous version of the video card driver, rebooted, no change
updated to the latest video card driver, rebooted, no change
ran the microsoft EU Expansion Font Update, rebooted, no change
(http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16083)
HKCU/control panel/desktop/fontsmoothin
beyond just the some-bold-some-not, squished together, look specifically at the "o" in the size 10 example below, see how they have weird dots
example picture posted below:
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both were eye-opening as i didnt realize this security fix was the problem