Thank you for your quick reply. I have tried your
suggestion of Reverse Video (LeftShift+LeftAlt+PrintScrn),
but the Windows Live Mail does not completely convert
the full pane, it only converts right half of the
pane and leaves the left half same as before.
Windows Mail in Vista does convert the complete
pane and I can revert back on both cases. Any other
suggestion for Windows Live Mail that can completely
alter the whole pane? Appreciate suggestions.
"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "User66" <user66@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I have been using Laptop for travel and Desktop for home use. Although I am
>> quite used to of the screen glares and character size setups on the older OP
>> systems, but still cannot set the Laptop screen characters, so that the
>> screen visibility increases to the point, that I can separate the 'selected'
>> and remaining lines of the e-mail. I am lucky enough to be able to set the
>> new Windows Live Mail and transfer my Hotmail, IMAP and POP3 accounts, and it
>> is running OK, but I am still trying to set the screen, so that the selection
>> process becomes more visible. For instance, while I am typing this
>> newsletter, I can easily recognize the screen content of the letter, but the
>> remaining part
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>> of the screen, that is, the News server name (msnews.microsoft.com) and
>> individual selected Newsgroup name
>> (microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop) are so lightly visible that I
>> can barely see which newsgroup I have selected.
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> Does showing them in reverse video help?
> Those elements can easily be selected if necessary.
> Usually though I can remember which newsgroup
> I'm going to be posting in. <eg>
>
> Besides the reverse video trick with selectable text
> another thing that I have had to do occasionally
> is temporarily switch to a customized High Contrast mode.
> E.g. use the default keystroke sequence for that:
> LeftShift+LeftAlt+PrintScrn You can use the same keystroke
> sequence to toggle out of it. The only unfortunate consequence
> of using it is that it sometimes messes up my Taskbar size.
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>> I wonder, am I the only user having this visibility problem, or this is a
>> common Windows Live Mail problem. In Outlook Express of Windows XP or in
>> Windows 98, the selected header line were light blue enough and the
>> displaying characters were deep black, and I had no visibility problem, but
>> that is not so in either my Laptop or the Desktop PCs under Windows Live
>> Mail. (In Microsoft Word, I can easily visualize the selected header line
>> and contents).
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>> Any comments, how to fix it in Vista? Thanks in advance.
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> One factor may be your video card and drivers.
> And whether you use the app in maximized windows.
>
> FWIW that happens to me on XP with my ATI Radeon
> and drivers. In order to get the necessary contrast and
> brightness I have to leave my windows in normal mode
> and first switch back from a Command Prompt window
> where for some reason contrast and brightness are
> maximized. If I switch from another maximized app window
> or maximize the window I am on, the contrast and brightness
> decreases so much that some parts of it are unreadable.
> That is particularly true with web pages which have been
> designed in the Vista style, i.e., strong variations in contrast
> and brightness within a page itself. However, in the case
> of web pages we also have the option of using the Internet
> Options, Accessibility settings to ignore such effects.
>
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> HTH
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
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