I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 6400 Notebook. Very happy with it, except that the colours look a bit washed out on the display. Does anyone know if there is any way to adjust the colour contrast on a notebook?
Please keep in mind that I'm not talking about brightness. The brightness is easy to adjust. I want to adjust the depth of the colours in the display. To make the blues, greens and reds darker, without adjusting the brightness.
Make any sense?
On a regular monitor, there would be dials or buttons to adjust this, but there is no such thing on the notebook. I've looked everywhere....
Help???
Lookup the function keys.
Nope, the function keys only control the brightness....not the colour contrast. Thanks though. Anyone else?
Look in Control Panel - Display - Settings - Advanced. Better software drivers will have something you can adjust there, and/or you may be able to adjust Gamma.
If you don't see anything like that there, default Windows drivers included on the Windows CD may be loaded for the video - install drivers from the maker of the video and you will probably then see more to adjust in Advanced. Just make sure you follow the directions for updating your drivers - you may have to un-install existing drivers - you certainly will have to if there is an entry for display drivers in Add/Remove Programs.And it's usually important to keep the display tilted closer to perpendiclar to your line of sight, or it will tend to look more washed out.
I had an HP laptop screen that was washed out after I had installed XP ....it used to have 98se. XP generic drivers didn't help, so I d/l'd Everest, clicked on the vid drivers and updated them...pretty painless, and my adjustments improved greatly. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
I don't know much about Everest. Is there anything I need to know before I use it? Is it pretty simple to use?
real simple, give it a shot Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks