Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Left Shift + Left Alt + Print Screen: High Contrast Mode

Posted in Windows by estephen on July 25th, 2007

You can toggle on or off the High Contrast Mode of Windows by holding down both the Shift key and the Alt key on the left side of your keyboard then tapping the Print Screen (PrtScrn) key.

High Contrast mode will increase the font size for all windows and buttons as well as change your color scheme.

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  1. Charlie Arehart said,

    on January 12th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    FWIW, it appears that this affects only the title bars, menus, and some text within the screens. For instance, I noticed it didn’t increase the size/readability of text within FF, but it did in crease the size of folder names in Outlook and similarly various text within some other apps. (I suppose you’ve already written about the ctrl-+/- shortcut for increasing/decreasing text size within FF.)

  2. Anon said,

    on March 23rd, 2009 at 7:36 am

    The reason it doesn’t affect some or most (debatable, based on programs you use) third-party applications is that they aren’t made to support Windows, instead being designed for multiple platforms, such as your experience with FF.

  3. sai kiran said,

    on January 25th, 2013 at 8:48 pm

    pls give information about low contrast

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