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Get To Screen Driver Settings
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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Get To Screen Driver Settings
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 ? I've always found the proprietary ATI and NVidia packages have a panel for adjusting color/gamma. Your T500 could contain just the Intel GMA4500 graphics, or it could contain both a GMA4500 and an ATI 3650. WinXP has some way of manually switching graphics in WinXP, followed by a reboot. And the GMA4500 does have an Intel panel. I've not seen that before when looking for support. And there is an item in it called "Color Correction". 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. ****** Right-click the desktop, select "Properties". That should open Display Properties. Select the Settings tab. Click Advanced. A "branded" panel should now open. Have a look in there for anything which launches further panels. I don't know Intel stuff well enough to guess what happens at this point. If it's Intel branded, there are various generations of panels shown here. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us...s-drivers.html Just a guess, Paul |
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Get To Screen Driver Settings
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 ? [] 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. [] 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? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stoopid gesture be done on somebody's part." "We're just the guys to do it." Eric "Otter" Stratton (Tim Matheson) and John "Bluto" Blutarsky (John Belushi) - N. L's Animal House (1978) |
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Get To Screen Driver Settings
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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? You might need to make adjustments like that for exotic display devices. For example, say you are using a projector and projecting the desktop environment in an auditorium. That might require some optimization. Regular display devices have "color temperature" settings, and can have three different settings. You'd want to match whatever the default is, as far as the video driver is concerned. For example, some display devices might be using a 9300K setting, which is "way too blue". Hopefully, that setting is not a default as far as the OS is concerned. You start by checking the monitor OSD, to make sure the problem isn't a kooky choice of monitor default. https://www.eizo.be/knowledge/monito...n-lcd-monitor/ "Most offer significantly fewer options in the OSD menu: 5000K, 6500K, and 9300K, for example. A color temperature of 6500 K is standard for ordinary PC use and for the sRGB standard. " A monitor driver, sometimes comes with a color calibration file, which suits the "mean" response of that monitor product. Using a Spyder and doing an actual calibration, creates a calibration file specifically for that monitor. For professionals, these would be better methods than puttering with gamma sliders or the like. In the old days, gamma came in handy in a mixed Mac/PC environment. The two platforms used a different gamma. If you were handling artwork from one platform, on the other platform, this could drive you crazy. Switching the gamma numerically to the correct value before beginning an editing session, would make the stuff you were working on look normal. The need to do this might well be different today, but it used to be a problem 20 years ago. Paul |
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Get To Screen Driver Settings
In message , Paul
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: 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? You might need to make adjustments like that for exotic display devices. For example, say you are using a projector and projecting the desktop environment in an auditorium. That might require some optimization. Good point. The OP said he'd just bought a laptop, so I assumed he just wanted to tweak the settings for the inbuilt hardware and screen, but you might be right. [much good stuff snipped] In the old days, gamma came in handy in a mixed Mac/PC environment. The two platforms used a different gamma. [] Fascinating! -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Everything will be all right in the end. And if everything isn't all right, then it isn't the end. - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) |
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