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On 7/18/2010 7:22 PM Just to please that super-ego,
wrote the following tidbit of information:
> I downloaded a wallpaper for my Windows 7 desktop. It's mostly a black
> background (it's a picture of the big red eye of the HAL-9000 computer from
> 2001).
>
> Towards the upper left corner of my screen, I see what looks to be a dead pixel,
> one little white spot, as near as I can tell, the size of a pixel. If it'sa dead
> pixel, it's the first one I've experienced in three LCD monitors.
>
> I got somewhat annoyed as this is a month old and expensive monitor. So I went
> online and searched dead pixels. I found a couple of utilities that let you
> check for them. When I used them and turned the screen all black, or any other
> color, the little white spot disappeared.
>
> Okay, good. So I thought maybe it's an artifact in the picture itself, so I
> opened it with Paint Shop Pro figuring if it was there, I could just touch it
> up. It doesn't show up in PSP. But it's still there on my desktop.
>
> Doesn't appear to be an artifact, doesn't appear to be a dead pixel. Anyone
> have an idea what could be causing it? Of course, one little white spot on a
> black screen and my eye is drawn to it continually.. I could change wallpaper,
> since I see it nowhere else, it's just that this is a cool one. Thanks.
Best thing to do is find a new pass time, watching wallpaper can't be
that much fun.

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