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This is a series of pages detailing just about everything you might want to know about Screens. Including Plasma Display Panels, LCD TVs and Laptop(TFT) displays. We talk about how to buy a television, set it up, look after them, avoid and solve problems like screen burn (image retention), the difference between Plasma and Liquid Crystal Displays and which is best for you. There is so much to find out about LCD TVs and PDP sets and we try to tell you as much as possible in a hopefully interesting and maybe even amusing way. We also recommend or sell products, services and accessories like Microfibre screen wipes for cleaning TFT, Laptops and all the other types of display.

The PC Screen Burn Fix Trick For Plasma & LCD TVs.
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If you can hook your PC up to your screen burnt TV try this. Create a folder in 'My Documents' called 'Screen Burn'. I'm not joking keep reading. Now open up a picture editor like 'paint' available on all Windows PC's. When you run 'Paint' a blank white document is what you should have in front of you. That is exactly what you need. Select File – Save as and name your picture 'white'. Be sure to save it in the folder you just created.

Next you need to click on the 'black' section of the colour pallete at the bottom of the 'Paint' window. After you have selected black click on the 'Fill' icon (a tipped paint pot) on the left. Now simply click in the middle of your white picture and it should become totally black. Select File – Save as and name you picture 'black'. Again be sure to save it in the folder called 'Screen Burn'. You don't need paint any more so you can shut it down.... Continued After A Comercial Break...

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Now right click on the Windows desktop an select Properties – Screen Saver and using the drop down list select 'My Pictures Slide Show'. Now to configure the slide show. Click Settings and configure as follows. Slide the bar to 'More' so that pictures change frequently. Slide the next bar to 'Larger' so pictures fill the whole screen. Now click the 'browse' button and find the folder you made called 'Screen Burn'. In the next set of options:- Check 'Stretch Small Pictures', Uncheck 'Show File Names', Check 'Use Screen Transitions' and finally uncheck 'Allow Scrolling Through Pictures With The Keyboard'. Save the options.
Different versions of Windows might have slightly different configuration options but as long as the result is a completely filled (no borders), alternating white and black screen with no writing then it will probably help.

Now set your screen saver to 1 minute and leave the keyboard and mouse well alone.

As with the 'snow' and 'signal pattern' leave this for a while to see some results. If you use your TV for the PC then it might be a good idea to use this as your regular screen saver and run it frequently.

If this seems a bit long winded check out PixelProtector in our screen care shop.