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Freeware - System Utilities - Monitor Tools

ClearType Tuner - This Microsoft PowerToy lets you use ClearType technology to make it easier to read text on your screen, and installs in the Control Panel for easy access. Microsoft ClearType is an unprecedented innovation in font display technology that dramatically improves font display resolution and marks a genuine breakthrough in screen readability.

Screen magnifier, color picker and image grabber, all in one. Features a resizable window, copy color to clipboard, copy image to clipboard, 1x - 10x zoom, grid and precision cursor movements. Low CPU usage when not active.

This is a program for testing LCD screens for dead pixels. A typical 17 inch monitor contains up to 4 million pixels, even a tiny dust particle on one of the pixels during the manufacturing process can create a dead pixel. Or a slight bump during shipping can break one of the highly sensitive pixels. If you've scoured every inch of your screen but can't find a single dead pixel, you are in luck. Because of the complexity of the design, it is generally regarded dead pixels appearing in some products are inevitable. If you need to absolutely make sure whether you have purchased a defective display, you can use this program.

This tiny utility allows you to set the video timeout of your monitor in terms of seconds (compared to the Control Panel which only allows you set it in terms of minutes.) You could, for example, have your monitor shut off after just 1 second of inactivity.

MultiRes is a 32-bit alternative to the venerable MS QuickRes, includes administrative scripting facilities and extended capabilities to handle refresh rates and multiple monitors. Supported resolution and refresh rates are accessible from the command-line or from a simple menu that pops up from the system tray. An optional timed confirmation prompt – enabled by default in the program About box – ensures that any changes you make can be reversed safely, without fuss.

Dead Pixel Tester - Shows the three primary colours used in TFT screens (Red, Green, Blue) over the whole of all the screens you have connected to allow you to check for dead pixels (manually!). Also has Black and White to check all on and all off.

ResolutionXP allows you to personalize your XP display settings, it can change screen resolution and color depth between Windows users. Windows itself doesn't personalize screen settings which can be quite confusing, if another user changes the screen resolution to a smaller value it messes up all other users' desktops. ResolutionXP runs in background, when a user logs in it changes the screen resolution to the user's setting. messing up other desktops. ResXP is a small program and closes itself 2 minutes after changing the resolution, so that it doesn't waste your system resources.

This is a very useful tool for software developers and computer graphic artists. Whenever single-pixel-accuracy is required, Lens will assist you by magnifying the area around the mouse pointer, you don't have to pause during the process of magnification, Lens continually updates its window and always stays on top. Other features are available from its right-click menu such as; pixel distance measuring; zoom factors ranging from 1 to 10; its window can stick to the mouse pointer or lock view to a defined screen area.

HZ Tool is a freeware tool for Windows 95/98 that lets you set the refresh rate for all resolutions, including the ones that Windows normally don't let you use.