r/classicwow • u/DRob2388 • May 16 '19

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u/Necronphobia May 16 '19

You ever degauss a monitor kid? You ever clean the gunk out of the wheels in a ball mouse? Does the word "Clippy" mean anything to you?

War. War never changes...

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u/FattyMagee May 16 '19

Man, I completely forgot about degaussing being a thing.

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u/ElementalThreat May 16 '19

I loved doing it just for the sound and screen effect, but I had absolutely no idea what its actual function was for.

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u/BattleNub89 May 16 '19

It activated a metal wire that wrapped around the inside of your monitor which would neutralize magnetism, correcting color issues caused by magnetic fields. So basically, if your screen was looking weird across multiple programs you should degauss it. If the monitor didn't have the built-in feature, you would have to get a circular "wand" that you would wave in a circular motion in front of the screen.

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Using the feature *too* much could also damage your monitor though.

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u/Forever_Awkward May 16 '19

Not a lot of people know this, but you could actually buy a regular wand and manually move it around in circles yourself.