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Icons, writing & pictures faced dull view on desk top & My Pictures...
Hi Intelectual Friends!!!!
This is "HARMONICA PLAYER" here, I play chromatic harmonicas on a professional level and have a CD selling on the market at CD Baby... MY PROBLEM: All of a sudden all the icons, writing and pictures have BECOME VERY FUZZY AND DULL on my desk top screen. Even the pictures in "MY PICTURES" are dull and fuzzy. On my desk top the (-) sign that withdraws the page to the TASK BAR is whited out until it is invisible. The clock and other items in the TASK BAR are faded out with odd colors. What must I do to correct this problem. Tell me in elementary terms, I am a 70 year old dummy!!! In some windows and files there is no problem. This letter is plain. Thank you! Harmonica Player |
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Icons, writing & pictures faced dull view on desk top & My Pictures...
Are you operating your monitor at its native resolution?
If you are not: Switch to the native resolution and see if that makes things look better. (You'll find the native resolution in your monitor's user manual.) If you a 1- Install the most recent driver for your video card. Is the image better? Problem solved. If not: 2- Power off the computer. Detach the video cable at both ends. Examine the pins - do they look worn or bent? If so, you need a new video cable. If not, carefully re-attach the video cable. Power on your computer - is the image better? If so, your video cable was loose. If not: 3- Try a different monitor. Is the image good? Your first monitor needs to be replaced. If the image is still bad, you need a new video card. --- Leonard Grey Errare Humanum Est Security Tips for Everyone, from PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334856,00.asp Jim and Pat German wrote: Hi Intelectual Friends!!!! This is "HARMONICA PLAYER" here, I play chromatic harmonicas on a professional level and have a CD selling on the market at CD Baby... MY PROBLEM: All of a sudden all the icons, writing and pictures have BECOME VERY FUZZY AND DULL on my desk top screen. Even the pictures in "MY PICTURES" are dull and fuzzy. On my desk top the (-) sign that withdraws the page to the TASK BAR is whited out until it is invisible. The clock and other items in the TASK BAR are faded out with odd colors. What must I do to correct this problem. Tell me in elementary terms, I am a 70 year old dummy!!! In some windows and files there is no problem. This letter is plain. Thank you! Harmonica Player |
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Icons, writing & pictures faced dull view on desk top & My Pictures...
Thank you Leonard!!! It is nice to have thoughtful guys like YOU around to help!!! It seems that my computer desk top and My Pictures PROBLEM was related to a WRONG SETTING!! My RESOLUTION was set to 8 BIT rather than 16 or 32 BIT. I went to the settings and increased the setting to 32 bit and everything cleared up!!! A message came up on the computer desk top this morning saying that "My RESOLUTION WAS SET LOW". PROBLEM IS SOLVED THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE!!!!! YOU HAVE A GREAT, RESTFUL THANKSGIVING DAY!!!!! Your friend, James M. German ... retired farmer producing over 9 million frying size chickens and professional harmonica player My website: http://hstrial-jgerman.homestead.com/index.html I hope everything goes well with you!!!!! James M. German 133 German Farm Road Boomer, NC 28606 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard Grey" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:29 PM Subject: Icons, writing & pictures faced dull view on desk top & My Pictures... Are you operating your monitor at its native resolution? If you are not: Switch to the native resolution and see if that makes things look better. (You'll find the native resolution in your monitor's user manual.) If you a 1- Install the most recent driver for your video card. Is the image better? Problem solved. If not: 2- Power off the computer. Detach the video cable at both ends. Examine the pins - do they look worn or bent? If so, you need a new video cable. If not, carefully re-attach the video cable. Power on your computer - is the image better? If so, your video cable was loose. If not: 3- Try a different monitor. Is the image good? Your first monitor needs to be replaced. If the image is still bad, you need a new video card. --- Leonard Grey Errare Humanum Est Security Tips for Everyone, from PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334856,00.asp Jim and Pat German wrote: Hi Intelectual Friends!!!! This is "HARMONICA PLAYER" here, I play chromatic harmonicas on a professional level and have a CD selling on the market at CD Baby... MY PROBLEM: All of a sudden all the icons, writing and pictures have BECOME VERY FUZZY AND DULL on my desk top screen. Even the pictures in "MY PICTURES" are dull and fuzzy. On my desk top the (-) sign that withdraws the page to the TASK BAR is whited out until it is invisible. The clock and other items in the TASK BAR are faded out with odd colors. What must I do to correct this problem. Tell me in elementary terms, I am a 70 year old dummy!!! In some windows and files there is no problem. This letter is plain. Thank you! Harmonica Player "Leonard Grey" wrote in message ... Are you operating your monitor at its native resolution? If you are not: Switch to the native resolution and see if that makes things look better. (You'll find the native resolution in your monitor's user manual.) If you a 1- Install the most recent driver for your video card. Is the image better? Problem solved. If not: 2- Power off the computer. Detach the video cable at both ends. Examine the pins - do they look worn or bent? If so, you need a new video cable. If not, carefully re-attach the video cable. Power on your computer - is the image better? If so, your video cable was loose. If not: 3- Try a different monitor. Is the image good? Your first monitor needs to be replaced. If the image is still bad, you need a new video card. --- Leonard Grey Errare Humanum Est Security Tips for Everyone, from PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334856,00.asp Jim and Pat German wrote: Hi Intelectual Friends!!!! This is "HARMONICA PLAYER" here, I play chromatic harmonicas on a professional level and have a CD selling on the market at CD Baby... MY PROBLEM: All of a sudden all the icons, writing and pictures have BECOME VERY FUZZY AND DULL on my desk top screen. Even the pictures in "MY PICTURES" are dull and fuzzy. On my desk top the (-) sign that withdraws the page to the TASK BAR is whited out until it is invisible. The clock and other items in the TASK BAR are faded out with odd colors. What must I do to correct this problem. Tell me in elementary terms, I am a 70 year old dummy!!! In some windows and files there is no problem. This letter is plain. Thank you! Harmonica Player |
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Icons, writing & pictures faced dull view on desk top & My Pictures...
Glad to help.
This is a small matter, really, but we may as well get the terminology right, for future needs. What you adjusted (from 8-bit to 32-bit) is called the color depth. It tells your video card how many colors it has to work with. What I suggested earlier - resolution - refers to the amount of detail your images have, measured in pixels. For example, your monitor may be displaying a resolution of 1,024 pixels per row X 768 rows. The resolution you choose should match the built-in resolution of your monitor. Keep playing that harmonica. --- Leonard Grey Errare Humanum Est Security Tips for Everyone, from PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334856,00.asp Jim and Pat German wrote: Thank you Leonard!!! It is nice to have thoughtful guys like YOU around to help!!! It seems that my computer desk top and My Pictures PROBLEM was related to a WRONG SETTING!! My RESOLUTION was set to 8 BIT rather than 16 or 32 BIT. I went to the settings and increased the setting to 32 bit and everything cleared up!!! A message came up on the computer desk top this morning saying that "My RESOLUTION WAS SET LOW". PROBLEM IS SOLVED THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE!!!!! YOU HAVE A GREAT, RESTFUL THANKSGIVING DAY!!!!! Your friend, James M. German ... retired farmer producing over 9 million frying size chickens and professional harmonica player My website: http://hstrial-jgerman.homestead.com/index.html I hope everything goes well with you!!!!! James M. German 133 German Farm Road Boomer, NC 28606 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard Grey" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:29 PM Subject: Icons, writing & pictures faced dull view on desk top & My Pictures... Are you operating your monitor at its native resolution? If you are not: Switch to the native resolution and see if that makes things look better. (You'll find the native resolution in your monitor's user manual.) If you a 1- Install the most recent driver for your video card. Is the image better? Problem solved. If not: 2- Power off the computer. Detach the video cable at both ends. Examine the pins - do they look worn or bent? If so, you need a new video cable. If not, carefully re-attach the video cable. Power on your computer - is the image better? If so, your video cable was loose. If not: 3- Try a different monitor. Is the image good? Your first monitor needs to be replaced. If the image is still bad, you need a new video card. --- Leonard Grey Errare Humanum Est Security Tips for Everyone, from PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334856,00.asp Jim and Pat German wrote: Hi Intelectual Friends!!!! This is "HARMONICA PLAYER" here, I play chromatic harmonicas on a professional level and have a CD selling on the market at CD Baby... MY PROBLEM: All of a sudden all the icons, writing and pictures have BECOME VERY FUZZY AND DULL on my desk top screen. Even the pictures in "MY PICTURES" are dull and fuzzy. On my desk top the (-) sign that withdraws the page to the TASK BAR is whited out until it is invisible. The clock and other items in the TASK BAR are faded out with odd colors. What must I do to correct this problem. Tell me in elementary terms, I am a 70 year old dummy!!! In some windows and files there is no problem. This letter is plain. Thank you! Harmonica Player "Leonard Grey" wrote in message ... Are you operating your monitor at its native resolution? If you are not: Switch to the native resolution and see if that makes things look better. (You'll find the native resolution in your monitor's user manual.) If you a 1- Install the most recent driver for your video card. Is the image better? Problem solved. If not: 2- Power off the computer. Detach the video cable at both ends. Examine the pins - do they look worn or bent? If so, you need a new video cable. If not, carefully re-attach the video cable. Power on your computer - is the image better? If so, your video cable was loose. If not: 3- Try a different monitor. Is the image good? Your first monitor needs to be replaced. If the image is still bad, you need a new video card. --- Leonard Grey Errare Humanum Est Security Tips for Everyone, from PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334856,00.asp Jim and Pat German wrote: Hi Intelectual Friends!!!! This is "HARMONICA PLAYER" here, I play chromatic harmonicas on a professional level and have a CD selling on the market at CD Baby... MY PROBLEM: All of a sudden all the icons, writing and pictures have BECOME VERY FUZZY AND DULL on my desk top screen. Even the pictures in "MY PICTURES" are dull and fuzzy. On my desk top the (-) sign that withdraws the page to the TASK BAR is whited out until it is invisible. The clock and other items in the TASK BAR are faded out with odd colors. What must I do to correct this problem. Tell me in elementary terms, I am a 70 year old dummy!!! In some windows and files there is no problem. This letter is plain. Thank you! Harmonica Player |
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Icons, writing & pictures faced dull view on desk top & My Pictures...
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:29:28 -0500, Leonard Grey
wrote: Are you operating your monitor at its native resolution? If you are not: Switch to the native resolution and see if that makes things look better. (You'll find the native resolution in your monitor's user manual.) A clarification he LCD monitors have a native resolution, and what you suggest is likely his problem if his monitor is LCD. But if he has a CRT, there is no native resolution. If you a 1- Install the most recent driver for your video card. Is the image better? Problem solved. If not: 2- Power off the computer. Detach the video cable at both ends. Examine the pins - do they look worn or bent? If so, you need a new video cable. If not, carefully re-attach the video cable. Power on your computer - is the image better? If so, your video cable was loose. If not: 3- Try a different monitor. Is the image good? Your first monitor needs to be replaced. If the image is still bad, you need a new video card. --- Leonard Grey Errare Humanum Est Security Tips for Everyone, from PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334856,00.asp Jim and Pat German wrote: Hi Intelectual Friends!!!! This is "HARMONICA PLAYER" here, I play chromatic harmonicas on a professional level and have a CD selling on the market at CD Baby... MY PROBLEM: All of a sudden all the icons, writing and pictures have BECOME VERY FUZZY AND DULL on my desk top screen. Even the pictures in "MY PICTURES" are dull and fuzzy. On my desk top the (-) sign that withdraws the page to the TASK BAR is whited out until it is invisible. The clock and other items in the TASK BAR are faded out with odd colors. What must I do to correct this problem. Tell me in elementary terms, I am a 70 year old dummy!!! In some windows and files there is no problem. This letter is plain. Thank you! Harmonica Player -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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