I can't see any on either of the OandG's snips.
the OP may see them on his display, but they are processed out when made ready for posting.
OandG, do you still see the shadows in your posts? No offense, but how old are your eyes?
Bongo you may have something there with contrasting colors, in an extreme example, lets say you happen to get hit with glare from a car's window or molding, first you see bright white, but when you close your eyes you see a fluorescent green.
I realize that too many people attempting to help can confuse things...
...so I'll make this one post and not speak again unless spoken to
As mentioned in another post, the JPEG image format might be taking the shadows out as it compresses and averages things. A BMP file format might be better.
From within Paint, chose the tab to the left of Home
Then pick Save as > BMP picture
But the file would need to be zipped or maybe the file extension changed to ZIP just to get it uploaded to the forum.
If theoldandgrey wants to try that...
...then this info might be needed to rename the BMP to ZIP
(assuming that it will fool the forum's file filters and not exceed the 8.3MB size limit)
File Extensions - Hide or Show
Or maybe there is a tutorial for sending a file to be compressed.
There is a possibility that these shadows indicate a problem with the monitor and they will never show via a screenshot of the video buffer being fed to that monitor. Maybe a picture taken with a camera would show them. If they only appear on certain shortcut icons (certain colors) - then it might indeed be the monitor. Hence the suggestions to change the background color.
I suspect uploading the image won't show the shadows because the monitor has some burned in images of icons if you have left the desktop on for extended periods.
If it is a good monitor it should recover after a time but the present icons will burn in too.
OMG! That's scary! Nobody including me can see them!
This seems to be a display problem. For instance, on my 9 year old CRT, I sometimes see such "shadows" towards right of the object I'm looking at. This can be text or anything such. This happens with certain color combinations. For example, blue text on red background, black object on absolute white background.
So, this either is a display problem, or can be an illusion. In my case, it's the aging CRT.
Hope that helped.
This got me to thinking...
OandG, can you tell us what type of monitor you have? Is it a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) or is it an older Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)?
If the former (LCD), this is what is done to help correct your symptoms:
If the latter (CRT)Picture has shadows or “ghosts”
- Press (Auto) to automatically adjust the display image to the ideal settings.
- Remove any extension cables or switchboxes.
- Make sure that the video cable is connected securely to the back of the monitor and your computer. For more information about connecting the video cable,
- see “Connecting the monitor” in your manual.
- Make sure that the video cable is not damaged.
- Check the end of the video cable for any pins that might be bent or pushed in.
- Make sure that your monitor connection is using the VGA cable that came with your monitor.
Source: My manual
I had thought that if a CRT you could try Degaussing the monitor, but the above suggests otherwise, still it wouldn't hurt.Ghosts, shadows, or streaks in picture adjacent to vertical edges.
Complaints about these kinds of problems are very common especially as
the screen resolution and necessary video bandwidth keeps increasing.
Most are due to cable and video termination deficiencies and not actual
monitor defects.
Source: How to Repair CRT monitor: Ghosts, shadows, or streaks in picture adjacent to vertical edges
You could also try resetting the CRT by pressing the AUTO button if it has that setting.
if its an lcd
you could try running this page for a while ,either click the fix my screen or select the white button and leave it on overnight.
be sure to haave it fullscreen and hide the cursor either in the settings or move it offscreen...
LCD repair v2.0
turn the brightness up full also.
Hi everyone
Thanks for all your ideas, I will be working through them today (Tuesday) in the hope there is a winner somewhere. I don't want to have to buy a new screen to replace my Samsung Syncmaster 940N - will have to save my pennies
I'll try a .bmp as a zip file
Incidentally the eyes are pretty old but grandson sees the shadows too
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