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Why is the top of all print when reading online not appearing correctly

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zex111
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The pixillation at the top of every lowercase letter seems slightly garbled, with there being distinctive tiny dots on top of the letters. At a glance, the print appears patchy and hard to read. It is extremely annoying for two days now. Any help please ?

The pixillation at the top of every lowercase letter seems slightly garbled, with there being distinctive tiny dots on top of the letters. At a glance, the print appears patchy and hard to read. It is extremely annoying for two days now. Any help please ?

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philipp
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hi, this is probably caused by microsoft update kb3013455 which can cause font rendering issues on vista:

After you install security update 3013455, you may notice some text quality degradation in certain scenarios. The problem only occurs on systems that are running Windows Vista SP2 or Windows Server 2003 SP2. Microsoft is researching this problem and will post more information in this article when the information becomes available.

reference: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3013455

one option may be to roll-back this particular update for now until there is a fix by microsoft or you could also look if there is a graphics driver update available on the website of the vendor (intel/amd/nvidia) which might also resolve this problem in some cases.