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Fixing Pixelated Fonts in Microsoft Edge

Nov 24, 2020 | Software

A great way to start a Monday morning is to find all of the text in Microsoft Edge to be pixelated. Here is how you can fix this.
Steps to fix text pixelation:

Start Microsoft Edge and click the 3 horizontal dots in the upper right corner.
Select Settings.
Select System.
Turn off the option for Use hardware acceleration when available.
Restart the web browser (a quick way to do this is type chrome://restart in the address bar.

The text should be sharp again.

14 Comments

Ted Jones on 2021-11-22 at 02:57

This worked a treat and has just possibly saved my eye site (or my laptop being thrown out the window.
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gm on 2022-01-21 at 07:37

This worked instantly…thanks!
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- Stephen on 2022-01-30 at 03:53
  
  Great, simple instructions fix it in seconds
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Hadi on 2022-02-14 at 21:45

Thank you ! worked like a charm.
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Joe on 2022-04-01 at 06:55

THANK YOU
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Charlie on 2022-04-26 at 13:32

OMG THANK YOU. Also, WHYYYY? Hardware acceleration should be a good thing, not a “minecraft mode” option.
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Grogg on 2022-04-30 at 20:43

THANK YOU!!!
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Andy on 2022-06-22 at 01:20

Amazing, this worked for me, super easy to do, thank you so much!
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Ashley Poirot on 2022-10-11 at 14:14

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
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don on 2022-10-20 at 15:22

Thanks finally a fix that does work
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Diaa on 2022-11-09 at 04:56

awesome! thank you very much!
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Ian F on 2022-12-21 at 04:04

Spot on! (forgive the pun) Instant fix – just wish I hadn’t wasted an hour trying to find it!
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Cameron on 2023-01-27 at 19:20

Another happy customer! Thanks for the quick fix.
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Eric on 2023-02-09 at 00:26

Great to find out that a solution can be so fast and simple, and it also works on a Win11 Virtual Machine via Parallels Pro on a Mac 🙂 Many thanks!
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