I'm puzzled because I've never seen this but maybe it's relatively common. On my Sony 19" Trinitron I recently noticed that a centered wallpaper image of a picture I've had on my desktop for more than a year has partially burned into my screen. I noticed it when I was recently in Microsoft Word and lines and outlines from the image were visible. I thought at first the white background in Word was semi-transparent, but when I removed the wallpaper, the image burn in remained.
Maybe I'm out of it, but I didn't realize if you had one image on a monitor for long time this might happen. Particularly with newer montiors. I know at one time in the early 1990s it was typical, hence the advent of screen savers. I got away from using screen savers because of some nasty crashes I experienced with a few. I've used similar images on many other computers and have never seen this happen.
Is this common? What did I do wrong? Is it because it was a certain type of image (it was a jpeg)? Is it permanent? Is the montior defective? Please enlighten me.
pjr
Maybe I'm out of it, but I didn't realize if you had one image on a monitor for long time this might happen. Particularly with newer montiors. I know at one time in the early 1990s it was typical, hence the advent of screen savers. I got away from using screen savers because of some nasty crashes I experienced with a few. I've used similar images on many other computers and have never seen this happen.
Is this common? What did I do wrong? Is it because it was a certain type of image (it was a jpeg)? Is it permanent? Is the montior defective? Please enlighten me.
pjr
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