...or so I was told.  That's what Chris the other Bellman said, but I should have remembered Chris saying, "I don't know ANYTHING about the Internet, man!"  He admitted to having never owned a computer, and then he asked me if Apple was the company that made Macs.

I have this old laptop at the hotel that someone gave to coffeesister, and she's been letting me use it.  When I say old, I mean, like four years.  It's an ancient Sony Vaio that sports the latest in wireless technology courtesy of the guy who sent it to us, but all of the other workings are SO four years ago.  It's low on ram, low on processing power, and low on class.  But it works well enough, except that the screen is a bit washed out.  I tried to find the setting to give it more contrast but ended up hopelessly mired in the muck of miscellaneous choices, none of which seemed to apply to what I wanted.  While sharing my dilemma with Chris, he suggested that I should have Daniel look at it, because Daniel "has been to school for all that stuff, man!  He knows all about computers."  So I asked Daniel to look at it.

It was in a meeting room that wasn't being used, where I had it sitting all booted up and everything, when he walked in.  I let him sit down in front of it, and I told him to have at it while I watched.  I'd described the problem and he agreed that some of the text being displayed looked washed out and therefore kind of hard to read, so he went into properties and started fiddling around with it.  It took me about ten seconds to realize..

..HE DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE WHAT HE WAS DOING.

This is because he went straight to the DISPLAY tab after choosing Properties, and then what did he do?  He changed the Windows XP default color scheme from blue to silver, saved it and then went back to the main display, which he gazed at with a puzzled expression for a few seconds before saying, "Well, THAT didn't help any."

He's a better bellman than computer tech - honest!

So, does anyone know how to increase contrast with Windows XP?  Or am I stuck with a washed out LCD screen, because it's old and that's JUST THE WAY IT IS, SO STOP BEING SUCH A LOLLIPOP, RHODESTER!