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Waco wrote:the slight change in darkness is not meant to make them hard to read.
meerkt wrote:Waco wrote:the slight change in darkness is not meant to make them hard to read.
I don't know about Win10, but there's a bad example of greys in Win8. The greys for scrollbar background and non-hilited thumb are 240 and 205.
Quite bad, especially on TN.
Igor_Kavinski wrote:meerkt wrote:Waco wrote:the slight change in darkness is not meant to make them hard to read.
I don't know about Win10, but there's a bad example of greys in Win8. The greys for scrollbar background and non-hilited thumb are 240 and 205.
Quite bad, especially on TN.
Don't mean to offend you but have you had your eyes examined? Color perception may degrade with age which an ophthalmologist may be able to diagnose with specially designed eye tests. You may be able to improve your eyes with the combination of pycnogenol and bilberry extract.
Shouefref wrote:And, indeed, WMe and WXP are pleasant and comfy to use, but W10 is disastrous. I don't have that much experience with W7, though, but I don't have good memories of it either.
Shouefref wrote:I don't know about the other suggestions given.
you got a view of a numbered month
Shouefref wrote:They don't improve the OS
Igor_Kavinski wrote:have you had your eyes examined?
Igor_Kavinski wrote:Have you tried fiddling with W10's cleartype settings?
https://www.top-password.com/blog/turn- ... indows-10/
meerkt wrote:Add TN, and diagonal viewing angles.
Igor_Kavinski wrote:meerkt wrote:Add TN, and diagonal viewing angles.
I honestly don't understand the fuss over TN panels. They aren't that bad. I simply tilt the screen till it looks better. I use IPS on my main laptop but I noticed that my Thinkpad with TN panel isn't half as bad. In fact, I was taken aback when I tried viewing Avengers Endgame on it. The intensity of lasers in the final battle looked pretty "intense" on it. It actually seemed like it had local dimming, which sounds absurd but that's how i found it to be.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
Shouefref wrote:In the older Windows, if you right clicked on the clock in the bottom right corner, you got a context menu, and could chose to change the date settings. In those date settings, you got a view of a numbered month, which was very handy to see how much days you had left for a deadline.
That doesn't exist anymore.
Shouefref wrote:You need better friends, seriously."Use Outlook," they then say. But that's much more cumbersome.
Waco wrote:Your gamma/brightness settings appear to be off, though. That scroll bar should be much easier to see.
Igor_Kavinski wrote:I honestly don't understand the fuss over TN panels. They aren't that bad. I simply tilt the screen till it looks better.
Flying Fox wrote:Shouefref wrote:In the older Windows, if you right clicked on the clock in the bottom right corner, you got a context menu, and could chose to change the date settings. In those date settings, you got a view of a numbered month, which was very handy to see how much days you had left for a deadline.
That doesn't exist anymore.
Do you mean this view?
https://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/BC/win7/ ... lock_2.gif
On 7, you just left click on the tray clock and you see that.
Win10 is also like that, with the calendar even larger.
https://zdnet4.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/201 ... a-view.jpg
(If anything, I feel the clock has been given the shaft.).
Shouefref wrote:greyed out type font in Windows Explorer and almost everywhere else.
Shouefref wrote:Moreover: they tend to use grey letters on grey background, only with different shades of grey.
What's wrong with black letters?
Shouefref wrote:It still doesn't explain why different columns in Windows Explorer have different shades of grey.
It only makes it more difficult to adjust the screen: if one group of columns is confortably readable, they other isn't, and vice versa.