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High contrast

Accessibility feature built into some versions of Windows to assist people with varying degrees of vision impairment. You may change the size and color of the fonts and the background for ease of viewing. To enable High Contrast follow the below steps for your version of Windows.

Windows XP Users

  1. Open the Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the Accessibility Options icon.
  3. In the Accessibility Options window click the Display tab.
  4. Check the box to Use High Contrast.

Windows Vista Users

By default Windows Vista has the ability to turn on and off the High Contrast color scheme by pressing and holding ALT, the left Shift, and the Print screen key all at the same time. If you wish to manually adjust settings such as displaying a warning message when entering this mode or disabling this feature follow the below steps.

  1. Open the Control Panel.
  2. In the Control Panel double-click the Ease of Access Center icon.
  3. Click the Set up High Contrast icon.
  4. From within this window you'll be able to adjust all the High Contrast color scheme settings.

Also see: Contrast, Video definitions

 

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