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>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.

Odd indeed that the "dead" pixel doesn't show up on your pixel-checking
utilities and odder still that it didn't show up when you opened the pic in
PSP . . .
Just out of curiosity, can you provide a link to that pic?
Thanks.

alan wrote:

> Odd indeed that the "dead" pixel doesn't show up on your pixel-checking
> utilities and odder still that it didn't show up when you opened the pic
> in PSP . . .

I have a sick pixel on one LCD monitor which shows as a different color,
greenish on some 'screens' (some of those with black content) but not
others.

I haven't investigated what kinds of tools I would use to 'define' or
diagnose what that pixel's exact illness is.

It doesn't seem odd to me.


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Mike Easter