Hey Christopher, what makes you conclude that I want to set the quality
to a lower level? Why would I do that, my dear friend?

Actually, I am using Visual Web Developer 2005 to create ASP.NET
applications where in I have set the default font color to white (on a
black background). But what I find is the text that should be white,
they sometimes change to light brown or light red or some other light
color on its own!!

I believe my monitor is not at fault because when I use Visual Web
Developer in Win2K Pro, I don't find this discrepancy. Moreover, I have
set ASP.NET keywords in VWD to bold but it does nol seem to get bold.
While using VWD in Win2K, bold & regular text can easily be
differentiated but, as already pointed out, in WinXP bold text
literally look like regular text.

This is another reason why I have asked this question.

BTW, do you too have the same 2 options in the 'Color Quality' dropdown
that I have (which I had cited in post #1)? Or are there any additional
options?


Christopher Kurtis Koeber (I-AM-A-BAMF) wrote:
> I believe that is due to the refresh rate that the monitor is set to. I
> could be wrong.
>
> But more importantly, why would you want to set the quality to a lower
> level? If you do so the icons, fonts, etc. would display pixelated. Is that
> what your going for?
>
> Regards,
> Christopher Koeber
>
> <rn5a@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1168758579.934752.252680@51g2000cwl.googlegro ups.com...
> >I am working on WinXP Pro.
> >
> > When I open Control Panel--->Display & navigate to the 'Settings' tab,
> > the 'Color Quality' dropdown menu lists only 2 options - Medium (16
> > bit) & Highest (32 bit).
> >
> > Are these two the only 2 options provided by WinXP Pro in the 'Color
> > Quality' dropdown?
> >
> > The reason why I am asking this is because I feel the colors of the
> > icons, fonts etc. are a bit different than what they should be.
> >
> > I am using the silver 'Color Scheme' (Control
> > Panel--->Display--->Appearance tab)
> >