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From: dittrich@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: best colors set up?
Message-ID: <13223@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 90 20:33:23 GMT
References: <8bFuWJG00YU6Q0fl83@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <8bFuWJG00YU6Q0fl83@andrew.cmu.edu> hp0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hokkun Pang) writes:
>Hi,
>  I have been using a color VGA with Windows3 for two months, I still can't get
>used to looking at the screen yet. My eyes feel so tired after a couple hours
>of viewing. Here's a question I have:
>
>Why is the most comfortable color combinations for Windows 3.0?
>

Try the colors suggested in the Microsoft Systems Journal article on Windows
(an excerpt of my win.ini file is included).

[colors]
; Colors reset per Geary article in Microsoft Systems Journal, July 1990
; Ones that Control Panel knows about...
ActiveBorder=128 255 255
ActiveTitle=0 128  64
AppWorkspace=64 128 128
Background=128 128 128
InactiveBorder=192 192 192
InactiveTitle=128 128 128
Menu=0 128 128
MenuText=0   0   0
Scrollbar=191 191 191
TitleText=255 255 255
Window=192 192 192
WindowText=0   0   0
WindowFrame=0   0   0
; New ones that Control Panal knows not
;ButtonFace=
;ButtonShadow=
ButtonText=0   0   0
GrayTest=128 128 128
Hilight=128   0   0
HilightText=255 255   0
-- 
Dave Dittrich
Dept. of Chemistry BG-10, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
dittrich@u.washington.edu     ...!uw-beaver!u.washington.edu!dittrich
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