I just discovered that last night my screen saver did not come on when I walked away from my computer...?
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Most modern monitors have a "degaussing" facility which generally is activated using the menu buttons which are probably on the front.
Check the website of the maufacturer or your manual.
This may help however it may be a good time to get a lcd.
My first instinct is to say you need to upgrade from a CRT monitor to an LCD one. However, if you want to keep the CRT, there is one thing you can do that has worked for me before (as well as failed for me so do this at your own risk. A screw up may irreversibly damage your monitor). Take a magnet and run near the monitor, maybe 2 or 3 inches away, above the burned in image. This works by the magnet plucking the electrons out of the cathode ray tube that displays the picture. However, you need to do it just right to get only those cathode rays (electrons) out and not all of them in the tube. Those electrons, when hit, project the picture on the monitor. But please, do this at your own risk. And, if you screw up, LCD monitors are pretty cheap these days.
DO NOT PUT A MAGNET ANYWHERE NEAR A CRT! Right click on your desktop and uncheck show icons. Then remove your wall paper, change the background color to white. This process is called a "burn in" Crank up your brightness as far as it will go, hide the taskbar so that there is nothing on the screen just a white field. let it sit for about an hour then check it. Your monitor should not have done this, any monitor manufactured in the past 7 years is very diffuicult to burn an image into. As far as the comment about getting an LCD, that is personal choice. You can really screw one of those up quick, plus they are not "true color" unless you want to spend a couple of grand on one. You may still need to get a new monitor, this is a quick fix, and it may shorten the life of the monitor. Next time, just turn off the monitor, it will not stop the operation of the computer, and it saves some energy. :) hope this helps.
This claim is very interesting when you consider this quote from a web site for audio\visual professionals.
CRT video monitor or CRT television receiver: low persistence, less susceptible
• May occur after thousands of hours of unchanging display
What image did you have on the screen to get this after 24 hours??
your screen saver may not have come on but you can also adjust the power settings where your monitor turns itself off like say in 20 minutes if you are not using the computer
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