IE 7 Display Colors

I am having a real problem with the current "style" popular nowadays for web pages, where everything has a "washed out" or "faded" look (for example, what you get on some "skins"). Some web pages display in such faded and washed out colors that my poor ol' aging eyes can hardly see them. They may have extremely light blue text on white backgrounds, and I can hardly see the printing on the web page unless I do something like Edit/Select All... for the whole page where everything gets highlighted and contrasted.

I already run IE using CSS style sheets with larger fonts and bold text etc, but even that does not help on most of the new flashy-style web pages (BTW the problem is there even if I disable the use of css sheets).

This even extends to some of the software I use, for example if you have MS Office 2007, just open Word and run the cursor along the toolbars, watch the faded windows open up for each toolbar option and so on, or even look at some of the menu bars and such, with their faded colors and semi-transparent screens.

Is there any way to shut off all this type of "super-cool" stuff? I don't want to stop running active web pages and such, nor have the colors disappear, but sometimes I go blind trying to see the faded out, washed away colors in use nowadays. Is there some obscure setting I can use to brighten things up so I can see them again?

BTW I am running a new Compaq 23" LCD monitor, 1280x768 res, Win XP Pro SP 3, and IE 7.

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Pete B

Hello,

You may want to try lowering your display resolution. This will 'magnify'
everything making it easier on the eye.

Also, 1280 x 768 does not seem to be the native resolution of your display,
so you may also want to increase it to the max to get a sharp display. LCD
panel display their best when used at their highest resolution, any lower
and the whole picture will appear 'faded' or 'blur'.

You can tweak your system brightness and contrast using your LCD panel's
control panel to see if it helps.

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"Pete B" <> wrote in message
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I am having a real problem with the current "style" popular nowadays for web
pages, where everything has a "washed out" or "faded" look (for example,
what you get on some "skins"). Some web pages display in such faded and
washed out colors that my poor ol' aging eyes can hardly see them. They may
have extremely light blue text on white backgrounds, and I can hardly see
the printing on the web page unless I do something like Edit/Select All...
for the whole page where everything gets highlighted and contrasted.

I already run IE using CSS style sheets with larger fonts and bold text etc,
but even that does not help on most of the new flashy-style web pages (BTW
the problem is there even if I disable the use of css sheets).

This even extends to some of the software I use, for example if you have MS
Office 2007, just open Word and run the cursor along the toolbars, watch the
faded windows open up for each toolbar option and so on, or even look at
some of the menu bars and such, with their faded colors and semi-transparent
screens.

Is there any way to shut off all this type of "super-cool" stuff? I don't
want to stop running active web pages and such, nor have the colors
disappear, but sometimes I go blind trying to see the faded out, washed away
colors in use nowadays. Is there some obscure setting I can use to brighten
things up so I can see them again?

BTW I am running a new Compaq 23" LCD monitor, 1280x768 res, Win XP Pro SP
3, and IE 7.

--
Pete B

"Pete B" <> wrote in message news:...

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Is there any way to shut off all this type of "super-cool" stuff? I don't want to stop running active web pages and such, nor have
the colors disappear, but sometimes I go blind trying to see the faded out, washed away colors in use nowadays. Is there some
obscure setting I can use to brighten things up so I can see them again?
</QP>

High Contrast mode. Press LeftAlt+LeftShift+PrintScrn
If you haven't used it before you *will* want to use its settings button first.


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Robert, thanks, that will do the trick, although I will have to play with it for awhile. It certainly eases up things for my tired old eyes!! I looked at the accessibility options in the Start Menu earlier but did not see this particular option listed there. But I see now that it is also available from the Control Panel Accessibility Option, so that makes it easy to get too as well.

Thanks again, my eyeballs will now survive......


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Pete B



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> Is there any way to shut off all this type of "super-cool" stuff? I don't want to stop running active web pages and such, nor have
> the colors disappear, but sometimes I go blind trying to see the faded out, washed away colors in use nowadays. Is there some
> obscure setting I can use to brighten things up so I can see them again?
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> High Contrast mode. Press LeftAlt+LeftShift+PrintScrn
> If you haven't used it before you *will* want to use its settings button first.
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