How can I darken the print on my screen?

Hi,

I run Win 7 64bit on a computer with performance rating of 7.3.

The print which appears on my screen (a top spec Sony Monitor) is coloured light grey, and difficult to read, especially against the bright screen background. 

Will you please tell me how to get the print to be fully black.

I have tried the high contrast themes, but occassionally, when entering data the yellow lettering disappears into the background, and I cannot tell what i am doing.

Many thanks

Roy Mayo.

Hi Bruce,

Due to the age of this thread, we recommend that you create a new thread in the following forum since some troubleshooting steps provided on this thread may no longer be applicable to your issue.

Regards.

Totally agree with Doug Mitchell response, have had my Dell laptop with Window 7 pro 64 bit for 3 years now and only started having this light print issue on everything excel files, word docs being read, emails etc within the past couple of weeks .. almost as if a Windows update somehow reset something in my computer that makes everything light grey instead of black print .. and there does not seem to be a way to fix it .. Microsoft has been in  the business since forever and one would think this issue would be clearly characterized and solutions made available for, but this company is in the nasty habit of palming their problems off onto the people who buy their products and this appears to be just such a case .. if anyone figures this out, lemmeno.

I am amazed that nobody at Microsoft can answer this question.  How can I accomplish making the data on my computer screen darker?  Not bigger, not brighter, DARKER.  I have been using computers since DOS.  I am not a neophyte, but an experienced user.  I keep getting ridiculous answers from Microsoft "experts."  If you don't know, or if it is not possible, please say that, but enough idiotic "solutions."

Hi Doug,

The user interface can only be changed using the available themes and settings when you on Start > Control Panel> Display. You may want to change the size of text and windows for you to be able to see the fonts better.

Hope this helps and if you have other questions, don't hesitate to post back.

Regards.