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    How to display all of Windows and everything in black & white?

    Is there an app or some setting that'll make my laptop display everything in black & white? Kinda like that effect you get when you go to "Turn Off Computer" on the start menu, and everything transforms to b&w.

    Any way to get permanently while i use windows?

    EDIT: i suppose greyscale is a better description of the effect
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    Like this but permanent:


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    That's a very good question ... anyone got any ideas?

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    Can you not just put your monitor on black and white or something?

    I've not tried it, as I don't want to mess with my settings, but i'm sure if you change the contrast or something, then it'd work.

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    May i ask why ?
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    And by trying to force me to like small pants, they've alienated me.

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    You should be able to do this by mucking around with the "Colour Correction" settings in the nVidia control panel.

    Edit: On second thoughts (having tried it myself), you'd probably need to spend hours to get it right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Agent
    May a ask why ?
    Just thought it would be a cool effect , my laptop's case is a stylish dark grey/black/hint of silver so was wondering what it would look like.

    Also there are times when i'm looking through thumbnails in a folder and it'd be nice to be able to see what images would look like in black & white without having to edit them

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    hmm good question, i tried this programand you could make the desktop go all high contrast so there must be a program that will do B&W!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Agent
    May i ask why ?
    Yeah, lol. Thats why i clicked on it!

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    do you just want the screen to fade to it?

    or do you want it to stay like that?
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus
    do you just want the screen to fade to it?

    or do you want it to stay like that?
    u blind clearly says above that he wants it like this permantly please read the above posts first

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    Quote Originally Posted by project187
    u blind clearly says above that he wants it like this permantly please read the above posts first
    Oi! I don't think that's called for. Please be a bit nicer? Plus, with your invariably poor use of the English language, I don't think you're in a position to criticise anyone else for their posts.

    Anyway, that's OT.

    Try the drivers for your graphics card?
    I'm sure there are some decent themes you can get which are pretty much black/white based.

    Google doesn't come up with a solution - it seems fiddling with colour settings is the only option! What drivers do you have on your laptop?

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    The question i'm asking, is does he want it to fade into that mode. I can't think of anything aproching a simple way of achiving that wihtout been "messy".

    The idea i like best, is to change the driver configuration, but this would have problems as lots of apps like to write in 24/32bit colour modes upwards only.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    well tbh at least i start reading the thread from the top, and i seem to remeber that i was told off for not reading the whole post so get off your high horse will you.

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    project187, i read the first bit, which is why reacting in a manner is just rude, but hey, i'm rude and blunt all the time so i take no offense. Espesually as it wasn't you i was trying to help.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    that last bit wasnt to you sorry i was a bit blunt, but i was just pointing at the fact that jonny came in like he was the ruler and shot me down for a legitimet comment all be it a bit blunt, sorry

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