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From: dve@mace.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Tip to users of interlaced monitors
Message-ID: <6919@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 10:19:30 GMT
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	Changing the Windows background color from white to darker colors
	does reduce the flickers on interlaced monitor. But there is a
	problem with this. By an ignorance in design of the Windows team
	the color of HELP hypertext titles is green which is not user
	changable. And green is very difficult to see properly on any
	background color other than the default white. Since all windows
	applications and tools (including the coming ones in future) all
	use this same HELP tool, this quite confines the user to white
	background unless he seldom needs any help, e.g. he always
	RTFM (Read The Fu*king Manual) and memorizes it before doing any
	thing.
	 
	I can't afford a non-interlaced monitor, so I bought a screen
	anti-glare filter. It makes the characters less crisp but does
	reduce flicker a little bit. (I use ATI at 800x600x16). By the
	way, the ATI 256 color drivers are terrible because if I run
	DOS or a DOS app in non-full screen mode then most of the colors
	become high-lighted (White does't). I find this very offensive.

	There's an old joke about software that goes as follews
		Every code has at least one bug and can be shortened
		by at least one instruction. Therefore, by induction,
		every program can be reduced to one instruction that
		doesn't work.