Help - Screen Visibility in Windows Live Mail

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
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. 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). Any comments, how to
fix it in Vista? Thanks in advance.

(cross-post added to Vista General)
"User66" <user66@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0785ADF6-7571-4903-890B-E1D9FFE4AB95@xxxxxx 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.


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.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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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
news:0C2D1056-F2CE-4D22-9C6E-EE6FCB6B9044@xxxxxx
You're not referring to fields in a composition window
any more, are you? ; )

Care to revise your symptom description
for what you're looking at now? ; }

Also, what are your High Contrast settings?

I just got a stack error in sethc.exe so I won't be able
to guess what your scenario might look like for a while.
<eg>

Ok. A second try worked. You mean the Folder pane
didn't change? That is strange. Well, at least the tooltip
is bigger and brighter... <eg>

Neat. Look at the Title bar? That stays there even without
the Folder pane.

It would be nice to get something other than that sickly
light blue highlighting of the selected folder...
OMG. This stuff is so wacked. Here's your fix:

Toggle the Folder pane off and on. (Use a toolbar button
to do that.) Then the selected folder will be completely
unreadable (because now it is dark blue with BLACK text
<LOL/>) but now the text will be bigger and as already
noted you will have cues about what that dark blob is
by using either a tooltip or believing what the Window's
Title bar tells you.

Since accessibility features are supposed to be better in Vista
YMMV. <eg>


HTH

Robert
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"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:05021BA7-0DB3-4475-BDC1-F374CD754CB8@xxxxxx I mean the 'full screen', not pane
I am not technically that savvy, but I think you are asking
for the video setting. If so, it is set at 96 DPI, whichj is the default
on my laptop.

How do I find it?