theultramage

Hello. I would like to know whether there is some configuration option or registry setting that affects the initial directory for the 'Open file' windows dialog. I'm used to the XP version where there is a fast drop-down menu. On vista, there is no such thing, and I am forced to scroll down to where 'Computer' is, expand it and only then choose the drive where I want to go. It gets annoying when you have to do this every time you start an application that's dumb (doesn't store last-used directories).

Cleartype is a technology designed for LCDs and LCDs alone (based on the fact that lcd color pixels come in 'stripes' of red, green and blue; CRTs have squares instead). Therefore on CRTs it might just look like blurred text. Anyways, it increases the perceived horizontal resolution almost 3x. It also makes text easier to read. The difference is very obvious when I have to open a remote-desktop connection to another comp (where cleartype doesn't work). The thin, line-style font that greets me is hard on the eyes... Be sure you are using a LCD and are using the native resolution instead of some distorted resized values. At 1280x1024, the pixels are so small that the color shift should not be recognizable. The downside is that at least on XP, pressing PrintScreen saves the image AFTER font filtering.