Set a light green desktop background colour to protect your eyes through long hours of looking at the pc monitor (Rev: 1.0)

If you spend long hours looking at your pc monitor screen daily, you might want to protect your eyes by changing the background colour of your pc desktop to light green instead of the default white colour.


For Windows XP SP3 Operating System (OS)

1. Kindly click Start -> Control Panel -> Display.

2. At the pop up "Display Properties" window, please click the "Appearance" tab -> "Advanced" button.

3. At the pop up "Advanced Appearance" window, please click anywhere within the "Window Text" area. The "Item:" will automatically change from "Desktop" to "Window". Kindly click the "Color 1:" drop down menu and click the "Other..." button.

4. Please enter the below light green colour values:

Hue = 84
Sat = 86
Lum = 215

or

Red = 219
Green = 238
Blue = 221

Kindly click "Add to Custom Colors" and click the "OK" button. Click "OK" button twice to exit from the "Advanced Appearance" window and from the "Display Properties" window.



For Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 OS

1. Kindly click Start -> Control Panel -> Display -> Personalization.

2. Please click "Window Color".

3. At the pop up "Window Color and Appearance" window, please click anywhere within the "Window Text" area. The "Item:" will automatically change from "Desktop" to "Window". Kindly click the "Color 1:" drop down menu and click the "Other..." button.

4. Please enter the below light green colour values:

Hue = 84
Sat = 86
Lum = 215

or

Red = 219
Green = 238
Blue = 221

Kindly click "Add to Custom Colors" and click the "OK" button. Kindly click the "OK" button to exit from "Window Color and Appearance" window.



Mozilla Firefox v19.0.2 or higher version

1. In Mozilla Firefox v19, please click "Tools" -> "Options" -> "Content" tab -> "Colors..." button.

2. At the pop-up "Colors" window, please check the "Use system colors" and click the "OK" button twice. This will now change your Mozilla Firefox background colour to use the system colors which is the light green color that we have just set in the Windows XP/7 "Display Properties".



Internet Explorer v8.0.6001.18702 or higher version

Internet Explorer v8 by default has already used Windows colors as the browser background colour. Hence, you don't have to set the Internet Explorer background colour. You can check it as shown below:

1. In Internet Explorer v8, please click "Tools" -> "Internet Options".

2. At the pop-up "Internet Options" "General" tab, kindly click "colors" under the Appearance section. The "Use Windows colors" by default is checked.