Lately my friend showed me a great tool – ClearType Tuner PowerToy. He also writes about the tool in his blog. By the way if you’re one of those geeky gadget-lovers I strongly recommend headworx blog – that’s something for you. Coming back to ClearType Tuner, its functionality is as clear as a day – it enables clear type in whole Windows XP system. “Hey, is that all? Your great tool just changes fonts?” My answer is: don’t grumble – give it a try.
Functionality
Application’s functionality maybe doesn’t sound great, but thing about every place in operating system where text is used. Or rather try to count your applications that don’t use any fonts at all. How many you could find? With no toolbars, menus, tooltips and status bars? Now imagine that all your applications are upgraded – many of them just slightly, but e.g. word processor and mail client are now on steroids. You don’t get any new function but all applications look better.
Installation
Whole installation process took about a minute (including googling the right site). A couple of clicks later ClearType Tuner was ready to work. Without any restarts, any advanced settings, anything. It’s just as simple as possible.
Configuration
You probably know neither your LCD screen stripping type nor contrast ratio which suits you the best. Doesn’t matter. Configuration wizard shows you boxes of text and asks you which one you like most. Two questions and that’s all. Now enjoy your clear type.
Give it a try
Well-defined, yet powerful functionality, fast and easy installation and intuitive configuration make ClearType Tuner PowerToy an application which perfectly suits try-and-buy model (even though it’s free). Setup effort is very low – whole thing had taken less than two minutes before I could enjoy system upgrade. The fastest system upgrade I’ve ever had.
It’s a bit funny that I could have clear type without installing anything, just changing system settings, but show me those who know where they are. Even though ClearType Tuner just makes easy to configure the operating system I believe one could make some money trying to sell this kind of tool (if there weren’t any). I would pay for the tool few bucks.
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