Monitor suddenly switched to Black & White

Rene Lamontagne wrote:

John Doe wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
SC Tom wrote:
Ted wrote:

This morning whilst reading some emails, my monitor
screen suddenly switched to Black & White

In the Ease of Access settings under "Color & high
contrast" is a setting for grayscale. The keystroke to
turn that on /off is WinKey+Ctrl+C

Nope, I'd never heard of that combination, is the licence
cheaper?

I have never heard of it and it apparently does not exist
here. I suspect it is available on portable Windows
devices only.

I just tried it and it works fine on a windows 10 Desktop.

Please post a screenshot of your Windows settings in which it
is shown. Or somebody post a link to discussion somewhere on
the Internet. I have been doing Windows' color and sound
configuration for decades. Never heard of it. It does not
exist here.

Nevermind. Apparently it came in the "fall creators update".

That is why I have never seen it before.

Strange keystroke combination, too.

John Doe wrote:
Nevermind. Apparently it came in the "fall creators update".

That is why I have never seen it before.

Strange keystroke combination, too.

I wonder "what kind of eyeball" needs that feature ?

It didn't make my screen any clearer.

https://s1.postimg.org/4tedylsy1r/co...h_contrast.gif

Paul

Paul wrote:

John Doe wrote:

Nevermind. Apparently it came in the "fall creators update".

That is why I have never seen it before.

Strange keystroke combination, too.

I wonder "what kind of eyeball" needs that feature ?

It didn't make my screen any clearer.

https://s1.postimg.org/4tedylsy1r/co...h_contrast.gif

Thanks. I do not know who might need it, but I would enjoy
seeing them. The update has not made it to me yet. I would
check out those other settings too. Worth taking a look at, but
I doubt my current method will be improved.

As said before...
Currently I use Magnifier to invert everything, VLC to
automatically reinvert movies, and the Chrome extension
Stylebyt to reinvert all multimedia in Chrome (Stylebot also
takes care of every other Chrome display configuration need,
including things AdBlock cannot handle). For pictures in
windows, I manually and temporarily reinvert using the
Magnifier shortcut key combination (a macro could replace the
combination with a single key).

Stylebot makes Chrome a necessity here. Could not do without
it. Sometimes Chrome's Inspect in Developer Tools is required
to supplement Stylebot, but Stylebot is the main attraction.

Stylebot looks like a simple utility, but MAN it is powerful.

On 09/11/2017 19:28, John Doe wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:

SC Tom wrote:
Ted wrote:

This morning whilst reading some emails, my monitor
screen suddenly switched to Black & White

In the Ease of Access settings under "Color & high
contrast" is a setting for grayscale. The keystroke to
turn that on /off is WinKey+Ctrl+C

Nope, I'd never heard of that combination, is the licence
cheaper?

I have never heard of it and it apparently does not exist
here. I suspect it is available on portable Windows devices
only.


It works on my "1709 Fall" all-in-one desktop PC, but does nothing on my
wife's laptop, but she still has not updated to 1709. Maybe is is
something new in the Fall update?

Ted wrote:
On 09/11/2017 19:28, John Doe wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:

SC Tom wrote:
Ted wrote:

This morning whilst reading some emails, my monitor
screen suddenly switched to Black & White

In the Ease of Access settings under "Color & high
contrast" is a setting for grayscale. The keystroke to
turn that on /off is WinKey+Ctrl+C

Nope, I'd never heard of that combination, is the licence
cheaper?

I have never heard of it and it apparently does not exist
here. I suspect it is available on portable Windows devices
only.


It works on my "1709 Fall" all-in-one desktop PC, but does nothing on my
wife's laptop, but she still has not updated to 1709. Maybe is is
something new in the Fall update?

That's the thought at the moment, that the gray scale
flipping option landed with 1709.

Paul

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"Ted" wrote in message
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This morning whilst reading some emails, my monitor screen suddenly
switched to Black & White (all-in-one system, so no cables). I have no
idea why so I rebooted the PC but it made no difference. The Monitor is
ok as the Windows log-on screen was in full colour, but as soon as it
switch to displaying my desktop it was only black & white again.

I could not find any "Windows settings" that might switch from colour to
b&w, and neither could I find anything in the Display Adaptor settings.

I tried rolling back the Display Adaptor driver, and re-installing the
driver, but that did not help.

It is an all-in-one system with built in video, so there are no external
cables to "wiggle about".

I finally fixed it by doing a system restore, but I would love to know
what might have gone wrong in case it happens again.

Any ideas?

In the Ease of Access settings under "Color & high contrast" is a setting
for grayscale. The keystroke to turn that on /off is WinKey+Ctrl+C
(according to the instruction there). You might try that and see it it
changes your screen back to full color.

How anyone would accidentally do that key sequence is beyond me, but hey,
stuff happens :-)

I suppose if someone went to use Ctrl+C it would be easy to accidentally
depress the Ctrl and Windows button at the same time, at least on my
keyboard since they are side by side.
BUT, thanks for that info. I had no idea that you could go to a grayscale
setting like that. Neat!!!
Thanks.
--
Buffalo

"Buffalo" wrote in message
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In the Ease of Access settings under "Color & high contrast" is a setting
for grayscale. The keystroke to turn that on /off is WinKey+Ctrl+C
(according to the instruction there). You might try that and see it it
changes your screen back to full color.

How anyone would accidentally do that key sequence is beyond me, but hey,
stuff happens :-)

I suppose if someone went to use Ctrl+C it would be easy to accidentally
depress the Ctrl and Windows button at the same time, at least on my
keyboard since they are side by side.

A classic case of choosing a combination of keystrokes which is too easy to
type accidentally without realising *what* you've pressed so as a) to be
able to look up the keystroke and hence the antidote, and b) to be able to
type the same keystroke combination again on the offchance that it's a
toggle.

Ctrl-Alt-Del for rebooting a PC (in the days of DOS) or bringing up Task
Manager (Windows) has the advantage that no two keys are adjacent and even
if you press Ctrl and Alt accidentally, the third key of the incantation is
right over the other side of the keyboard.

"NY" wrote in message
o.uk...
"Buffalo" wrote in message
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In the Ease of Access settings under "Color & high contrast" is a setting
for grayscale. The keystroke to turn that on /off is WinKey+Ctrl+C
(according to the instruction there). You might try that and see it it
changes your screen back to full color.

How anyone would accidentally do that key sequence is beyond me, but hey,
stuff happens :-)

I suppose if someone went to use Ctrl+C it would be easy to accidentally
depress the Ctrl and Windows button at the same time, at least on my
keyboard since they are side by side.

A classic case of choosing a combination of keystrokes which is too easy
to type accidentally without realising *what* you've pressed so as a) to
be able to look up the keystroke and hence the antidote, and b) to be able
to type the same keystroke combination again on the offchance that it's a
toggle.

Ctrl-Alt-Del for rebooting a PC (in the days of DOS) or bringing up Task
Manager (Windows) has the advantage that no two keys are adjacent and even
if you press Ctrl and Alt accidentally, the third key of the incantation
is right over the other side of the keyboard.

Before Windows, the Ctrl and Alt keys were a lot closer than they are now
since there was no Windows key, but they weren't real close like, say, the A
and S keys (check out an old IBM Model M). But as you say, the Del is far
enough away to make almost impossible to accidentally hit the three in
sequence.
--

SC Tom