Colours, date

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How can I chance the colour balance in my computer if everything (pictures,
internet,etc) is cold and blue?
How to change the date in calendar (if time zone is correct but the date is
automatically wrong) ? Thank you !
 
How can I chance the colour balance in my computer if everything (pictures,
internet,etc) is cold and blue?
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Warm it up by moving into the yellow and red range. First thing to
check before doing anything that extreme is be sure the cable between
your computer and monitor is in tightly connected at both ends. Then
check the settings of your video display card. You sure you got Vista
drivers? Beyond that it depends on the video card software, some cards
have extensive settings you can fiddle with, others don't. Same for
most monitors. Is this a brand new system? If not, were things alright
before you installed Vista.

Need more input.
 
Right click on your empty desktop, select properties to select different
colour tones.
Right click on the date, and select to change it
 
Sorry, in vista, click personalise, not properties, when you right click on
the empty desktop, to change colours.
And right click on the time in the task bar to change the time/date. There
is an option in the menu that wil pop up
 
Hi, Adam !
Could you help me, if I specify the question?
Computer is HP Pavilion dv 6225 bought with Vista Home premium.
The picture quality is ok except cold tones ...
The datas I found from color settings:1280by800, 32 bit, 60Hz but no word
about
warming up colors.
is there anything I should try ?
Thank you for your time !
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Hi, Adam !
Could you help me, if I specify the question?
Computer is HP Pavilion dv 6225 bought with Vista Home premium.
The picture quality is ok except cold tones ...
The datas I found from color settings:1280by800, 32 bit, 60Hz but no word
about
warming up colors.
is there anything I should try ?
Thank you for your time !
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How new is your computer? Even if you just bought it, it could have
been on the shelf or in some warehouse for months and accordingly not
have the latest drivers or just didn't get set up to specs before it
left the factory. I've seen monitors (especially screens on laptops)
be really off. If yours is really blueish, I would ask for replacment.

PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

Using the information you provided I found the following HP site which
lists drivers. If you model matches exactly, you may or may not want
to try downloading and installing newer drivers if your particular
laptop isn't totally up todate. The way to check is click on Start,
then type in 'system' which will take you to a detailed list of how
your PC is currently configured. Click on components, then display and
see if your drivers are older then the one on HP's web site after
being sure the model number matches.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3340164&lang=en

That said, it probably won't have much if any impact on the color
cast. How much you can change this, even if you can, depends on the
graphic card, the driver('s) it runs under and the OS. Could be that
even if you have the latest drivers they aren't "tuned" yet to give
the best results, yet it is hard to accept HP would let it out the
door if the colors are really off, but who knows. ;-) You may have a
settings tab or control panel in your task bar that brings up a window
to adjust. This should be covered somewhere in your HP manual. I'd try
this first.

If it really bothers you, (it does me since that's the kind of work I
do) you can install third party software that can adjust the internals
and fiddle with color settings in very fine amounts. For example
Adobe's Photoshop has come with a little gizmo called Adobe Gamma
loader for years, that can force changes system wide.

While I haven't tried it on a laptop there are little hardware devices
now like ColorVision http://www.colorvision.com/ that attach to the
screen that can calibrate displays to NTSC specs for example. Again,
it depends what you use your computer for or if you just don't like
the bluish tone if or not it is worth the trouble an expense. There
are other brands and models, seen some as cheap as $50 in larger
computer stores. Again it depends on how much this problem bugs you
and if or not you can control it with settings build into your
computer or adjust via some driver update or not. Also doing a Goggle
search on monitor calibration and similar topics will bring up a
wealth of informaiton on this fairly complex topic. Good luck.
 
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