Where is Vista Contrast Adjust?
January 14, 2009 4:06 PM   Subscribe

How do I adjust the contrast on my Inspiron running Vista?

Everything looks washed out :-(

I did ask Dell support, but the tech kept telling me to adjust the brightness, which is not contrast. I've used my googlefu with no luck.
posted by Juicylicious to Computers & Internet (3 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: Go to Personalize (either by right clicking on the desktop or through control panel). Click "Display Settings", then click the "Advanced Settings..." button.
In the window that pops up, you should have a way to get to the advanced color configuration. On my computer, I have a "Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile" tab. Yours probably says something different. I can then go into that tab and hit "Color Correction." Once there, I can adjust the contrast, gamma, and brightness.
posted by niles at 4:37 PM on January 14, 2009


Response by poster: Thanks! What's gamma?
posted by Juicylicious at 4:58 PM on January 14, 2009


I'd reset everything back to default and look at these images. If they are right, then your source is washed out.

Vista has a colors section where you can change the color of the OS elements, did you change that?

Could be your display panel is messed up too.
posted by gjc at 6:38 PM on January 14, 2009


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