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If you have a CRT monitor on your computer (means not a flat screen), there is a possibility that you’re making life harder on your eyes than it needs to be. To find out, do the following:
1)Right click on the desktop (not and icon)
2)Choose Properties from the resulting menu
3)Click on the Settings tab at the top.
4)Click Advanced button on the lower right
5)Now click on the Monitor tab from the resulting screen that pops up
You’ll see a “Refresh Frequency” or something that sounds like that. If you see “60Hz” in the box, you’ve been subjecting your eyes to undo strain for who knows how long. On my monitor, I have the option of 70Hz, 75Hz and 85Hz. Basically, the higher you can put this number, the less the monitor will bug your eyes. I use 85Hz.
Choose the highest frequency you can and apply it. Your monitor may get weird on you. On most monitors, you can adjust the black spaces on the top and bottom of the screen with the controls on the face of the monitor. When you make this change to 85hz, all the previous tweaks you made to your monitor in terms or shape and size may be reset. Just change everything back to the way you like it via your monitor controls and you’re good to go.
If you’re curious what the difference is, give this experiment a try. Open something with a huge white background. Try a blank document in word or maybe just google. Now, look at the very very upper left most part of your monitor (the plastic bezel). Hold your eyes there and see if you can “feel” a pulsing at 60Hz. Change to 85Hz and repeat the experiment. The difference is like night and day.
I honestly don't know how Dell, IBM, HP, Gateway and other manufactures send out their machines. Hopefully, they use 85Hz. Also, these instructions work on Windows 2000 and I think Windows 98. You should be able to get the same screens in Windows XP, but you'll probably have to fumble around to find where to go. Maybe someone with XP can post another set of instructions.
-bigfreak
1)Right click on the desktop (not and icon)
2)Choose Properties from the resulting menu
3)Click on the Settings tab at the top.
4)Click Advanced button on the lower right
5)Now click on the Monitor tab from the resulting screen that pops up
You’ll see a “Refresh Frequency” or something that sounds like that. If you see “60Hz” in the box, you’ve been subjecting your eyes to undo strain for who knows how long. On my monitor, I have the option of 70Hz, 75Hz and 85Hz. Basically, the higher you can put this number, the less the monitor will bug your eyes. I use 85Hz.
Choose the highest frequency you can and apply it. Your monitor may get weird on you. On most monitors, you can adjust the black spaces on the top and bottom of the screen with the controls on the face of the monitor. When you make this change to 85hz, all the previous tweaks you made to your monitor in terms or shape and size may be reset. Just change everything back to the way you like it via your monitor controls and you’re good to go.
If you’re curious what the difference is, give this experiment a try. Open something with a huge white background. Try a blank document in word or maybe just google. Now, look at the very very upper left most part of your monitor (the plastic bezel). Hold your eyes there and see if you can “feel” a pulsing at 60Hz. Change to 85Hz and repeat the experiment. The difference is like night and day.
I honestly don't know how Dell, IBM, HP, Gateway and other manufactures send out their machines. Hopefully, they use 85Hz. Also, these instructions work on Windows 2000 and I think Windows 98. You should be able to get the same screens in Windows XP, but you'll probably have to fumble around to find where to go. Maybe someone with XP can post another set of instructions.
-bigfreak
