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Our site was designed to be seen on a color monitor that shows at least
256 (8 bit) colors. If you aren't sure how many colors your monitor
will display, click here to test your monitor color depth.
How to change monitor color settings:
Macintosh
- Go to the Apple Menu
- Select Control Panels
- When the control panels folder opens, double click on the Monitors (or Monitors and Sound on Power Macintosh computers) control panel
- Select the largest number of colors available on your machine
- If your monitor is set to a high resolution, sometimes reducing
the resolution will allow you to select more colors.
To see what
these control panels should look like, you can take a look
at a picture here of the
Monitor or the
Monitor and Sound control panels.
Windows 95
- Go to the Start Menu
- Select Settings
- Select Control Panel
- Double-click on Display
- Choose the Settings tab
- Double-click on Display
- Make sure the window on the lower left shows at least 256 colors
To see what the window ought to look like, you can
see a screenshot of proper color settings.
You may be able, depending on your hardware, to set the
number of colors even higher, to 16-bit (High Color) or 32-bit
(True Color).
Windows 3.x
- From the Control Panel, select Windows Setup
- From the Options menu, select Change System Settings
- Click on the Display pull-down menu to bring up a list of possible settings
- Each possible setting shows a resolution (such as "1024x768") and a number of colors (such as "256c")
- Select the highest resolution and number of colors you can, and click "Ok."
- Windows may prompt you to insert one of the installation disks at this point!
- Make sure the window on the lower left shows at least 256 colors
You can look at screenshots of these steps.
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