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Windows XP's appearance is messed up
For some reason, the appearance of my computer has gone haywire. See picture below. I have not downloaded anything and as you can see: the theme is Windows XP.
Help?
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How can I switch WIndows 7 to more than 256 colors?
Installed Windows 7 in Virtual Box, and started old (from 1999) game in it. All worked fine, but on exit from game, Windows switched to 256 colors. And it's virtually unusable. Some buttons are black ...
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Monitor calibration icm profile vs color settings?
We bought a Dell U2713H monitor, and because of the price tag we thought it deserves a calibration, so I asked for it.
This is the first monitor I bought calibrated, I always thought these are just ...
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Auto-adjust (dim) the color scheme of the monitor at night? [duplicate]
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Adjust screen brightness automatically at night
Some days spending a whole day in front of the monitor may be more strenuous on the eyes than desirable. In order to ...
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Laptop colors changed. Everywhere
Everything was good, but today when I turned on my laptop HP ProBook 4320s, power button, wifi button, hdd led and Screen - everything went from clear white to white-purple. Has anyone any ideas?
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Screen brightness issue
I bought HP dv6 a month ago. A few days ago I found the problem that if I open a picture or lets say Command prompt which has black color, the screen automatically gets dim and when I open any window ...
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Can f.lux's automatic behaviour be overridden?
I found out about f.lux when someone mentioned it on another question here on SU that I happened to stumble upon. I've been using it ever since because it's a simple, original, useful piece of ...
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White color is not white in Windows Picture Viewer
Recently bought new monitor. And connected it with HDMI. No new monitor extends my laptops in-built monitor. There is 1 problem with white color (all other colors are awesome)
This is how Windows 7 ...
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What colour is the dark green on 'old fashioned' green screen computer displays/VDUs?
I'd like to make my text editors display like the old skool white-on-green VDUs of yore that I can just about remember from my childhood. I have this idea they might be easier on my old eyes.
I was ...
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Terminal, vim and ssh color problem
I'm using vim for my editor. I've problems about the colors of vim. The same colorscheme of vim gives different outputs in terminal, ssh session and screen. I learnt they've different colors(16, 88 or ...
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Apple 27 inch Cinema Display has blue tint when connected to NVIDIA/Intel, “normal” when connected to ATI
My 27 inch Apple Cinema Display has a blue tint to it when connected to my laptop, which uses Optimus (NVIDIA + Intel). I believe the Intel actually handles the output signal in all cases, and the ...
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Linux — Display has red tint
My monitor seems to have a slightly reddish tint when using the DVI input (it's a LCD, not a CRT). On the VGA input I can adjust the colors, but not on DVI. On OSX/Windows what I would do is create a ...
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How do you set a laptop's screen color profile to 9300k in Windows 7?
I have a large LCD monitor in which I have set on 9300k color. I like this profile a lot and much prefer it over the default 6500k profile but I have no idea how to set my laptop to it as well. The ...
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Poor monitor contrast for certain colors
I recently bought a monitor (LG W1930S). Everything went out smooth until I discovered certain colors are.. invisible. For instance on this monitor #EEEEEE and #FFFFFF look the same to me. On the old ...
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DVI + HDMI connected Monitors = Color difference
I've just bought 2 identical 23" monitors, Acer V233H to be precise.
On my graphics card (ATI Radeon HD4870), I have 3 outputs. 1 HDMI, 1 DVI (or maybe DVI-I?) and another one that I haven't seen ...
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How to check what color model the computer display is using?
Is there a way to check whether it's using RGB model or YUV or another ?
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How can I reduce saturation on my wide gamut monitor to have it display at sRGB levels?
I recently bought an Eizo S2243W, which boasts a wide gamut panel that displays 95% of AdobeRGB.
The thing is that, while color aware applications are fine, most applications (including Windows 7 ...
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How to make my display Grayscale?
I want to reduce the saturation of my laptop monitor to the point that it is almost grayscale. That's the goal.
Intel and Asus don't have an answer. Asus Splendid and the intel graphics control panel ...
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Configuring a monitor's contrast/brightess/colours/etc
I have recently bought myself a new monitor, now I'd had my previous screen well over 5 years now so I'm looking at this one thinking the picture doesn't quite look right (not bad, just different). ...
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Colors differ in the dual monitor
I use a dual monitor.
The colors appear entirely different on the new monitor than they do on my laptop.
When you are selecting colors etc, to be included in a website design, it totally freaks me ...
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How to calibrate monitor colors to use 3D glasses?
I have a pair of red/cyan 3D glasses and when I use them to view youtube's 3D videos or anaglyph images they dont seem to work properly. The two images are not filtered properly by each colored lens.
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Switch to Monochrome
Is it possible to switch the display mode under Windows to monochrome somehow? You know, like when you select 'Turn off' in Windows XP and it makes it all grayed out - so I need this but for life.
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In Ubuntu 9.10, how do I check my color depth?
xdpyinfo | grep depth gives me many answers, I'm not sure which one I want. Google says to look at my xorg.conf, but Ubuntu 9.10 has no xorg.conf.
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24-bit monitor on 32-bit card
Can a monitor that supports 24 bits of color depth be used with a graphic card that supports 16 or 32-bit color depth only ??
This monitor, for example:
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What is the ICM profile and how it is managed in Windows?
I have download the ICM profile for my monitor but Windows XP shows me colors in a way, Firefox and GIMP in another.
So my question is what really is an ICM profile and how Windows and other ...
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Use Color Profiles in OS X to reduce monitor's color saturation
I've got nice-to-have problem: my new monitor (Dell 3008WFP) has wide color gamut and displays too saturated* colors (magenta and cyan look almost fluorescent).
I'd like to get colors closer to ...
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Is there such a thing as a video card capable of Deep Color?
I know there are video cards that display True Color (24 bit color), but are there any video cards that display Deep Color (30, 36 and 48 bit color)?
Further-more are there any display devices that ...
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How do I configure my monitor/operating system for optimal color display?
I'm a web developer, and for a hobby I take photos and edit them on my computer. I've found that sometimes I miss stuff on my own monitor that are apparent on other monitors (aliased edges that didn't ...
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Invert display colors
Is it possible to invert display colors on Windows like Macs can?
I have nVidia GeForce 6200 graphics card and 17" Samsung SyncMaster display.
