So why does XP look so awful in a VM?
Then change the drop-down to ClearType instead of Standard.
The changes should happen immediately, and no more jaggy screen fonts in your virtual machine.
Geek Tip: Be Sure to Enable ClearType in Your XP Virtual Machine
So you've upgraded your XP to Windows 7, Linux, or Mac OS X and decided to keep using Windows XP in a Virtual Machine so you can run those old, incomp
