At your computer: Extra accommodationsThe glare of light from computer screens can drive you crazy. It might give you a headache or eyestrain or make the print do strange things. Here's help:
Hint: Overlays work great for computer glare if you use different computers or share a computer with other people. Or if your email is really white and everything else is okay.
Note: If one of the programs below says that it doesn't work with the type of monitor that you have just choose a different program. If you don't you could possibly screw up some of your monitor's settings or something.
Tutorial: Changing your computer's background color (Tutorial performed on Windows XP. However, steps for other versions of Windows are very similar.) Change the background color of your computer so that certain programs will use something easier on your eyes than the default bright white background color.
1. Right click on an empty space in your desktop to bring up the little options menu. Click on "Properties". The Display Properties box will open. 2. Click on the "Appearances" tab.
3. Click on the "Advanced" button.
4. Click the arrow on the "Item:" drop down menu and select the last option, "Window". Changing the color for this changes the background color for any application that uses Windows' background color settings. (Ex. Word, Excel, Outlook, certain text boxes, etc.)
Note: In this tutorial we'll just be changing the "Window" color, but it's possible to change the color of every item in the list.
5. Click the drop down arrow under "Color 1" and click the "Other..." button exactly as shown below.
Note: Be sure to click on "Color 1" as shown above and not on "Color". "Color 1" changes the background color, which is what you want to do. "Color" changes default text color, which you don't need to mess with. (Or maybe you do want to later.)
6. Select the color that is most comfortable for you. Click on the large color box to select your hue and slide the slider on the right up and down to select your shade. You can make a collection of your favorite colors if you like by clicking "Add to Custom Colors".
7. When you find the color you like best, exit out of all of the stuff you just opened by clicking "Ok" 3 times.
8. Try it out! Open Word or Internet Explorer and...
Note: The background in the example above is blue, but for you it should be whatever color you picked out. (No duh.) Go back to Step 5 if you want to change the text color.
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