Fonts on windows become faded

fonts on windows menu bars and message boxes etc. become faded after opening the geforce fx 5700 window in advanced settings, after shutting down and then rebooting the fonts appear as normal, just recently installed this card with driver 5.2.1.4 on win2k prof. any advice on this much appreciated

This is common, and under several configurations I have experienced this too. It has something to do with clear type font settings in XP, native resolution on your monitor, brightness settings and refresh rates.
If the refresh rate is high and the brightness, contrast and gamma settings are too high, you will see this anomally. It's a matter of finding the sweet spot with your particular configuration.
That's about all I can say on this, I have been able to correct or minimize this but haven't come to the magic bullet as I usually try several settings in combination so it's hard to pin down.

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System:
3.2 Xeon Quad core
2x2 TB drives
2x1 TB drives
32 GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro 5600 display adapter
Windows 7 Ultimate
Adobe CS4 Master Collection

I'm sorry to hear about the frustration. I'm not using Windows 7 yet, but it does sound like its font installation process has changed. I did some searching and came up with a free utility to convert the AFM and INF files that come with Type 1 fonts to the PFM file that is needed (along with the actual PFB font file).
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I see what you're trying to do, check out this link:
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"Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Semibold (TrueType)"=""
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"Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"="segoeuii.ttf"
"Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"="segoeuiz.ttf"
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This is supposed to be a better program than Win 8.
Did someone from Microsoft Marketing tell you that? Maybe a fanboy? :)
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I mean yes, we all expected Win 8.1 to be better than its predecessors
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buying Win 7, which pays their bills.
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