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Do you have that funny feeling that your monitor my not be displaying properly? Do the images you print look different than the images on your screen? This excerpt from Wei-Meng Lee's Windows 7: Up and Running will help you take are of those pesky display issues by showing you how to calibrate your display in Windows 7.
Windows 7 includes two cool tools to calibrate your display for text and graphics. These tools are especially useful for notebook computer screens, as they make your display much sharper. These two tools can be launched using Control Pane→Appearance and Personalization→Display.
Note
The two tools can also be launched via the command
line—cttune.exe and
dccw.exe.
The cttune.exe application (the “Adjust ClearType text” link on the left of the window) helps you to calibrate your display for displaying ClearType text (see Figure 8.28.
The dccw.exe application (the “Calibrate color” link) helps you to calibrate the color of your display so that colors can appear accurately (see Figure 8.29).
This compact book offers the quickest path for Windows XP and Vista users to get started with Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. With Windows 7: Up and Running, you get the essential information you need to upgrade or install the system and configure it to fit your activities, along with a tour of Windows 7's features and built-in applications. Windows 7 is poised to be a big hit among PC users, and with this handy guide, you can be productive with it right away.
