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Adjusting the screen and desktop settings
Tips & Tricks
If you are using an external monitor, you can adjust the screen settings for brightness, contrast, and horizontal and vertical image position using the controls on the front of your monitor. For more information about these adjustments, see your monitor guide.
Adjusting the color depth and screen area are two of the most basic display settings you may need to change. You can also adjust settings such as the screen background and screen saver.
Help and Support
For more information about adjusting display settings, click Start, then click Help and Support. Type the keyword changing display settings in the Search box, then click the arrow.
Color depth is the number of colors your screen displays. Various image types require various color depths for optimum appearance. For example, simple color drawings may appear adequately in 256 colors while color photographs need millions of colors to be displayed with optimum quality.
Windows lets you choose from several color depth settings. We recommend that you use the
If the color in your images seems “false” or “jumpy,” especially after you have played a game or run a
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2Click the Settings tab.
3Click the arrow button to open the Color quality list, then click the color depth you want.
4Click OK, then click Yes.
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