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The update also makes Chrome blurry (and other apps like Steam)

You have to right click the Chrome desktop icon -> properties -> compatibility -> disable display scaling

Then go to Chrome settings -> advanced settings -> increase font and/or zoom

In Windows 7 and 8 there is a way to disable the blurry display scaling globally: In the display control panel's Custom DPI Setting dialog, select "Use Windows XP style DPI scaling". Then for the few apps that don't look good this way, you can go into their properties and enable display scaling there.

Unfortunately they took this feature out in 8.1. It defaults to blurry scaling globally with no way to override this, so you have to go into the properties for each and every app that looks blurry and disable scaling individually.

Of course all of this applies only if you do use a custom DPI setting. At the default 100% it doesn't do any scaling.

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