In message , Paul
writes:
Butcher wrote:
I just purchased a Lenovo T500 laptop running Win XP Pro and need to
get the the screen settings. Not the standard Windows settings but
to the screen driver settings. Color adjustment, gamma, etc.
How do I get to that ?
Do I need to download something ?
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The drivers that came with it, should be exposing all the
features. It's not like a home build, where you have to
gather the right drivers manually. As in a home build,
you'd go looking for a separate Intel package, a separate
ATI package, and so on. Your purchased machine
should already have some version of that software
installed.
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This depends who you purchased it from, or rather what they did with it.
I have had laptops from refurbishers, who have installed - as part of
their refurbishing process to ensure all trace of the previous user is
eradicated, for both privacy and malware reasons - a perfectly good
working version of Windows as part of their refurbishment process, but
none of the machine-specific drivers, utilities, and such like. Such an
installation can sometimes be _better_ than as new, as it doesn't
contain the assorted crapware and trialware that the manufacturer would
have installed - but, you do have to download and install those items. A
good indication that this has been done is if the screen resolution
isn't that native to the LCD panel.

If that _has_ happened, so far I've always been able to find the
necessary drivers, utilities, and so on at the manufacturer's website,
though it may need some digging to find. Toshiba are good; I've never
had a Lenovo.

_Do_ you have an icon in the tray that seems to relate to video settings
(often mentioning the manufacturer - of the hardware I mean, not Lenovo;
such as Intel or whoever - by name)? They often put one there, if the
right drivers/whatever _are_ installed. (Turn _off_ the thing that hides
unused tray icons. I have a double-height taskbar, which has 34 items -
two rows of 17 - in the tray!)

Are you just mentioning colour adjustment, gamma etc. as examples of
what you expect to find once you get what you want installed, or are
those actually set wrongly in your opinion?
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