How can I invert all the screen display colors in Windows Vista?
The majority of my screen is white and I would prefer it the other way round.
The closest I could get is using High Contrast [Left-Alt + Left Shift + PrntScrn], but it doesn't quite work how I expect; the Windows features are mostly made black, but for example web pages still load in their original color, which again, is mostly white.
Is there a way I can just make the colors invert on the whole screen on a laptop?
I recently asked myself the same question: "how can I invert my screen's colors easily" (on Windows 7) and I was so disappointed to find there was no solution except the Magnifier trick, that I developed my own.
NegativeScreen is a simple but complete program written in C# (sources open).
You can try it out here.
PowerStrip is the solution (not free though)
Right click the PowerStrip tray icon and select Color > Configure.
Check the Invert Gamma Ramp (negative image) box. If Write Directly to Palette DAC is not enabled, check that as well.
Optional: tweak the brightness, contrast, gamma, and temperature of the global colors or of the different components.
Just to explain: all browsers will render web pages in the colours specified by the page author - unless you override this.
Johannes has explained where the option is in IE.
In Firefox it's at Tools > Content > Colours > Allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of my selection above.
Uncheck this option and set the text and background colours you like.
I can't seem to find the equivalent option in Google Chrome.
For web pages you can usually set custom colors in your browser. In IE you can find this in Internet Options > General > Colors.
Google Chrome has a high contrast extension that inverts colors on most text things on web pages while maintaining appropriate colors on most pictures and things. I use it constantly.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/djcfdncoelnlbldjfhinnjlhdjlikmph?hl=en
