Brightness

[David]

All my pictures, backgrounds, and games are too dark to
see clearly. My monitor controls have very litle
effect. What do I use with Windows XP to help with this
problem?

 

[Gib]

David... Man, sounds like the monitor is shot. Hook the
monitor up to another PC. Good Luck

Gib

 

[Master]

Change your monitor to Plug and Play. And then change the
refresh rate. Play around. One of the settings will make
it lighter.

 

[Diogenes41]

-----Original Message-----
All my pictures, backgrounds, and games are too dark to
see clearly. My monitor controls have very litle
effect. What do I use with Windows XP to help with this
problem?
.

Buy a new monitor (he said flippantly). Attempts at
cuteness aside, this truly does sound like a hardware
problem, not software. If you can swap a known, good,
"bright" monitor to your system and it still shows up dark,
please (a) accept my apologies for failed humor and (b) let
us all know when you get the XP solution.

 

[Les Herrman]

All my pictures, backgrounds, and games are too dark to
see clearly. My monitor controls have very litle
effect. What do I use with Windows XP to help with this
problem?

Sounds like you may have a monitor that is just simply going bad. But
a lot of video cards do include controls to change the
brightness/contrast/color/Gamma etc in them.

Open Control Panel/Display
Click Settings tab then advanced button.
Look for a Tab that says Color or maybe Gamma
If such a tab exists then you may be able to ramp up the brightness
some there.