Colour Brillance - Laptop Screen

[101RRS]

I have a new Lenovo laptop and am new to Windows 10 - while it has a much higher resolution screen (1080p) than my old HP (780p) the colours on the new screen do not seem to be as brilliant as the old one.

Last night I was playing with the Desktop menu and came across a menu that had a few options to change screen contrasts etc - one option was to increase 'reds' and another was to increase 'greens' so I hit the increase 'reds' option.

The screen did not look all that different but today I opened one of my excel files where I have bright yellow (the standard excel bright yellow) highlights and now they are khaki yellow - almost Olive Drab - so I must have hit the increase green button rather than the red button.

So I want to reverse this cock up but I cannot find the menu I got into last night.

HELP [bawl] - can anyone who knows Win 10 (Win 7 is so much better) help me get back into the display menu that allows me to vary colours?

Thanks

garry

[AK83]

Sounds like you got to the 'calibrate display' menu option.

Rightclick your display -> look for an item called Display adapter properties, click that.
The window that opens will give you the graphics card/chip properties dialogue box.
By default it's opened at the Adapter(ie. GPU display adapter) tab, so look for the Colour Management tab and click that.
You see another colour management click bar to click, do so.
This opens ANOTHER box called Colour Management, with 3 tabs. First one is Devices look for the Advanced tab, click that now.
Once you hit that tab, look towards the bottom of the window for the Calibrate Display click button, and this takes you to the calibration page that helps guide you to set colours as best as you can by eye.

I know the above sounds convoluted, but it's that way for a reason.
If you muck up display calibration, you could see much worse colours that reality.

Hope that helps.

[101RRS]

Thanks Arthur but is that for Win 10 because I do not have any of those menus/commands - right from the very start.

However by trying some of the display right click menus to see if any of mine matched I was able to find where I went yesterday - when I right click one of my options is Personalize. Clicking on that brings me to a page where you can set the desktop background etc - one of the options on the left is Colours. Clicking on that you then have an option of High Contrast on the right of the page - to the left of that page is Colour Filters - I had turned it on and selected Red/green - turning off Colour Filters turned everything back to normal.

Thanks for the lead in - actually helped a lot.

cheers

garry

[DAMINK]

Win 7 is so much better

I agree totally.

I have installed 10 so many times i have lost count. Just because i want to use the latest OS.

Its a boat a bit little like Vista was. From install i notice a slower bloated machine. My pc is an i5 with 12 gig of ram, ssd for os and a very good graphics card so it should handle 10 easily!

System control is difficult. (perhaps it gets easier over time?)

Updates are all but forced apon you which i dont like one bit. If i dont NEED it i dont want it!

Only good thing i could find with 10 was the fact i could run the new age of empires on it where i was unable on 7. (hmmm might try emulate 10 and see if i can run that game hahah)

I dont think i will ever go back to 10. Just wait for the next windblows to come out and check that out i guess.

[AK83]

Thanks Arthur but is that for Win 10 because I do not have any of those menus/commands - right from the very start.

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Weird!
I've had that on all Win10 systems. I don't remember it on Win7 at all and it is a Windows internal system for calibrating the monitor, even tho the way I access it is via the GPU's manufacturer driver interface for the GPU settings.
Some years back I bought a nice Gigabyte Win7 tablet for travel. Had everything I thought I'd need, except screen was pretty ghastly when viewing photos compared to my calibrated PC screen.
The plan was drive around for thousands of miles, take photos, store photos on tablet, maybe cull a bit after viewing, leaves more card space on camera for more photos
.. repeat above process again ..
When Win10 preview came out I had to install it. Win7 on a tablet was woeful, but Win10 made tablet Windows a viable option. Then I saw someone post the info re internal calibration in Win10, so had to try it on the tablet.
Could be graphics driver dependent too. But graphics GPU on the tablet was nothing special.
So maybe as you only just reinstalled the OS, have you loaded the GPU manufacturers latest drivers yet. (ie. nvidia or AMD's), that could be the difference.\
Not important for most folk, and good to see it was just the personalisation change that did what you were looking for.



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Its a boat a bit little like Vista was. From install i notice a slower bloated machine. My pc is an i5 with 12 gig of ram, ssd for os and a very good graphics card so it should handle 10 easily!

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I was convinced with Win10 being the way to go with my install on the piddly little 10" Gigabyte tablet.
First thing I did to it was remove the slow spinning HDD, and add a faster SSD to it. But it has an Atom(I think) CPU and only 2G ram, so system specs not flash, and only 32bit.
SSD made enough of a difference, but Win10 made more of a difference on that tablet.

[incisor]

windows 7 support ends in 2020, windows 8.1 in 2023

windows 10 has been the most reliable version of windows i have seen since 3.11

not a perfect animal by any measure but a very good OS if you don't do stupid things to it...

as for the things you don't like, they can be minimised and in some cases negated but you can lose a lot of the feature set doing so.

runs lovely in a window on my mac pro :p

cheers


I agree totally.

I have installed 10 so many times i have lost count. Just because i want to use the latest OS.

Its a boat a bit little like Vista was. From install i notice a slower bloated machine. My pc is an i5 with 12 gig of ram, ssd for os and a very good graphics card so it should handle 10 easily!

System control is difficult. (perhaps it gets easier over time?)

Updates are all but forced apon you which i dont like one bit. If i dont NEED it i dont want it!

Only good thing i could find with 10 was the fact i could run the new age of empires on it where i was unable on 7. (hmmm might try emulate 10 and see if i can run that game hahah)

I dont think i will ever go back to 10. Just wait for the next windblows to come out and check that out i guess.

[101RRS]

Weird!
I've had that on all Win10 systems.

This is what I have when I right click on the screen - not quite the same as you described but under the Intell, Display and Personalise menus are some of the things you listed - my problems were in sub menus in Personalise which I could not find - but is all good now as you pointed me in the right direction.

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Thanks

Garry

[AK83]

This is what I have when I right click on the screen ...

Apologies Garry, my bad for not being 100% clear.

But, if you're curious:

from that screen(shot) choose the Display Properties option above Personalise.
Then it takes you to a new settings screen(labelled 'Display') and look for Advanced Display Settings down the bottom(above the Graphics settings).

It's in the Advanced Display settings page where you then follow my earlier instructions.

Other options for adjusting colours and contrasts may also be in the Intel Graphics settings option as well.
Not sure, I have no Intel GPU PCs at hand to check, but nVidia driver settings also has colour/contrast/calibration options, so I'm assuming Intel's does too.
These are independent of the Windows calibration options too .. so it can get pretty confusing if you look too hard.