Fixing Stuck Pixels

Gnomie Terabytes Courtney from our chat room writes:

I bought a 22″ monitor about a month ago and when I turned it on I found it had about 20 stuck pixels! A few hours of hardcore gaming didn’t fix the problem and I didn’t know what to do. It was then I remembered that every color is made up of red, green, and blue. Here’s what I did to fix ALL of my stuck pixels:

1. Opened mspaint and created a new bitmap with a resolution the same as my monitor’s (in my case 1680 x 1050).
2. Created three images: one red, one green, and the last, blue.
3. Saved all of the images to my desktop.
4. Finally, I highlighted them all, right-clicked and chose preview, went fullscreen, and let the slideshow do the work.

I’m not 100% sure as to why this works, but I think it’s because, for each color, two of the three cells in each pixel get a chance to be off. I also found speeding through the images helped.

Anyway, I hope all of your stuck pixel woes can be solved!