I keep forgetting I really am as sensitive as I claim. I just sat for a few moments at someone else's computer to help them with something and I hurt
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On a WinXP system: Right-click on the desktop; select "Properties."
Click the "Settings" tab. Click "Advanced."
Click the "Monitor" tab. Screen refresh rate is somewhere in there. Default is 60 for most monitors; older ones need to be smashed with big hammers can't safely be set higher than that. 75 is tolerable, and a bit more than tolerable on a flat screen. 85 is good.
60 is painful. The flicker bothers me all day. From across the room. I've been known to sneak around offices re-setting the refresh rate on every computer I can get to.
thank you. I just reset mine to 85. I cannot consciously see the flicker at 60, but I am going to see it this changes anything in my headaches and neck pains.
okay, that was bad. I apparently have weird eyes. 60 doesn't bother me at all. 85 hurt like I was being stabbed with fire in my eyes. I have reset to 60.
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When you feel better -
What's a refresh rate?
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Right-click on the desktop; select "Properties."
Click the "Settings" tab.
Click "Advanced."
Click the "Monitor" tab.
Screen refresh rate is somewhere in there. Default is 60 for most monitors; older ones need to be smashed with big hammers can't safely be set higher than that. 75 is tolerable, and a bit more than tolerable on a flat screen. 85 is good.
60 is painful. The flicker bothers me all day. From across the room. I've been known to sneak around offices re-setting the refresh rate on every computer I can get to.
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Could be interesting.
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*whimpers*
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