You should always pay attention to your health at the computer and ergonomics in the workplace. In particular, your monitor and its settings are crucial. Follow our guide to adjust your monitor screen to the best setting. And this is something you can do even if you are just getting started with a computer as a beginner!
Not infrequently, unexplained headaches, severe feelings of fatigue, or even painful tensions in the head and neck area are simply due to the wrong settings of your monitor. What many don’t know is the fact that Windows 10 already has a tool to calibrate your monitor easily. This way, you can protect your eyes and make your work much easier by configuring your monitor.
Admittedly, we only became aware of this tool through our research on the Internet and the search for a new magazine topic. Windows 10 is dazzling in hiding handy tools in the depths of Control Panel.
DCCW is the magic word to adjust a monitor screen to the best setting
The free tool of Windows for a better overview in all situations is called DCCW. The somewhat bulky abbreviation stands for Display Color Calibration Wizard. How you start and use them, we show you below.
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Startup
As is so often the case with Windows 10, it starts by simply typing the app name in the Start menu.
In our case, just click on the start button of Windows 10 as well as typing the letters “dccw” as well as a final press on the Enter button and the monitor setting can begin.
Introduction
The following is a short introductory text, in which the meaning and purpose of the tool is briefly explained. If you are interested, you will also find a link to further information in the Microsoft Support Center of Windows 10 in the window. For our purposes, however, a short click on the bottom right is sufficient.
Open the screen menu
In the next step you should go to the on-screen menu. This is usually located directly in the screen itself (so-called onscreen menu) and can be activated by a button on the front or side of your monitor.
If possible, place the DCCW window so that the on-screen menu does not obscure it.
Set gamma value
The first correct setting to make is the gamma value of your screen. To do this, you do not yet use the above-mentioned onscreen menu of your screen, but a slider directly in the DCCW tool. Clicking Next leaves the explanation and leads directly to the settings window.
The gamma value is perfectly adjusted when the small circles in the middle of the large circles are almost unvisible.
See the middle image in the upper window.
If you have set the gamma value correctly, then click on “Next” to the next window.
Brightness setting
The next step is to set the correct brightness values of your screen.
As always, a short explanation follows in the first window, which you can leave with a click on “Next” in the lower right corner.
As usual, you will first receive 3 pictures displayed. As always, the middle image corresponds to the optimal settings, right and left of it you will find 2 corresponding negative examples.
Click the “Next”button again to go to the next window.
Here you need the onscreen menu of your monitor for the first time. And that is now to change the slider under the category Brightness so that on the one hand a clear difference between white and black is recognizable, and on the other hand you can distinguish the shirt of the pictured person from their jacket.
If you have adjusted everything correctly, then click on “Next” to the next window.
Setting contrast
The contrast of your screen is also an enormously important value for a crisp and clear display. In short, the contrast value determines the difference between white and black. The higher the contrast, the more “stinging” this difference appears.
Here, too, we need to find a good middle ground, as in the middle picture.
This setting also takes place via the on-screen menu directly to your monitor. This time, however, in the “Contrast” section.
Set the slider here in such a way that the highest possible difference between black and white arises, but the wrinkles and buttons on the man’s shirt remain clearly recognizable.
Remove color casts
The last correction option is the color casts, more precisely the red, green and/or blue cast of your screen. By the way, as the device ages, it may make sense to repeat these settings from time to time.
By the way, you can now close the on-screen menu again, it is no longer needed. After the usual short explanation, clicking on “Next” will lead you to 3 sliders.
Set them so that all color casts are removed from the gray bars and then click “Next” again.
Almost done!
That’s what happened with the most important settings. In the following window you still have the possibility to compare previous configurations with the current one, and if necessary to discard or save them.
Optionally, there is still the possibility to run the ClearType tuner, which is also recommended. In any case, a click on “Finish” ends the program DCCW and saves your hit settings.
Improve font image with ClearType tuner
Completely optional, but still highly recommended – especially with older monitors – is a subsequent execution of the ClearType tuner. This is also a free part of Windows 10 and can be easily started via check box after DCCW. See the picture above.
The principle is as simple as it is effective: you get several boxes with font sether in turn and click on the box in which the typeface is most clearly displayed. If you have repeated this procedure a total of 5 times, the settings will be saved and the wizard will be terminated.
Adjust monitor screen to the best setting: fatigue-free work
That’s it, our little guide to the perfect monitor setting and thus a better view on the home screen. We hope we could give you a small but perhaps even more valuable help. With this in mind, we are happy about your feedback as always and wish you always fatigue-free work on your computer.
