reset my laptop screen to factory default colors? I have two identical hp pavilion dv7.

[WailekaW]

I have two hp pavilion dv7 laptops. I just got two identical external Samsung 40-inch monitors and to my shock I realize that the colors I have setup in my personal theme are terrible on the laptop but spectacular on the external monitors. That is, text, images and features such as buttons, scroll, active/inactive title bars, etc. are crisp and easy on my eyes on the external monitors, but on the laptop screen 'appears' to have a light overlay white wash.... for six months now I thought it was because I need to have cataract surgery (which I cannot yet afford)... but now I realize that I shouldn't have dinked with the colors. Can you please tell me how to reset the screen colors back to factory settings? (Yes, I have tried adjusting 'brightness' on the laptop, but that doesn't change the 'whitewash' look which is making the laptop builtin monitor virtually unusable. (However I can see the external monitor very clearly, as though no 'overlay of white' existed.)

[Alexandra73]

Hello!

Go to the control panel, apperance and personalization, then display. Go to the left hand column, and click on calibrate color. This should help you fix the white wash problem. 

[WailekaW]

Not even close to correct.

Thanks for the effort though.

[Alexandra73]

Sorry. You can try changing the window colors and metrics. Use the search bar in the start menu and you'll find it.

[WailekaW]

Thank you for your help. I already reset the colors and metrics, but that is not what I really wanted. I was hoping to find out how to change the contrast, whereas through normal processes it is difficult to do that, although controlling the brightness is just an F-key change.

Anyway I finally found what I was looking for (it was there all the time but I had forgotten how to get to it)... the video card 'extra' software that I had to search for (but I had to take the laptop apart to get the info on the built-in video hardware.)

So I set the laptops on either side of my desktop server that had the colors, contrast/brightness/saturation/hue/gamma sets that work for my vision limitations (I am slowly going blind.) Anyway all three machines now have similar look-n-feel to the text/graphics on the windows, etc.  

I appreciate the help, it made me think outside the box, better. I will document what I finally did, but of course once I figured it out it seemed so 'obvious'... you know how that goes! Something seems obvious so you don't document the process, and then, you FORGET it (again). 🙂

But when my day is over today, I'll be back to post step by step solution (even though I think you'll all go 'that's so obvious', duh').

🙂

[BarbaraGold]

I accidentally messed with my colors, and now in my gmail the buttons that show what you want to do with email, such as delete etc. are white even though I have not selected anything to be white! 

Can anyone help me?

[Assadour]

Changwe colors to factory default