My hair is glowing and so are white objects or objects with light. How do I fix this?

[ScarletLaviesse]

My avatars hair is glowing and so are some of the objects around her. When I ask other people if they see her hair glowing they say no. It is really annoying and it started happening out of nowhere. How do I fix this? I also can't even click on the File button at the top of the page. I've tried downloading different veiwers ect. but nothing is working. Please help me.

[Bactine]

Sounds like a graphics issue. The viewers are setting your graphics to best work with your computer by default. The glow in your hair could be caused by a facelight OR something in the edit window of the hair such as light or glow used. White prims being really bright would be something to do with your graphics settings. Prims with lights usually get brighter automatically. You can go to Me>Preferences>Grafics>Custom and untick things one at a time going from bottom to top and using the sliders one at a time (save before moving to the next in line) to see which of these settings is causing the problem for you.

[Rolig Loon]

Glow is rendered locally by your own graphics card.  With luck, you may be able to disable it in SL by changing a couple of settings.  First, open your Preferences (CTRL + P) and navigate to the Graphics page.  Among the Hardware Options is one called Enable OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects.  (In the current Firestorm viewer, this is in a tab marked "Hardware Settings".  I don't know exactly where it is in V2 or the other viewers, but it is there.)  When you find it, UNcheck it to disable.

You may also want to change a second setting.  Open your Advanced menu (CTRL + Alt + D) and select Debug Settings to open its window of dropdown choices.  Type renderglow in the section field.  That should open the selection field for that setting, which you should change to FALSE, if it isn't already at that setting.  Doing that will keep local light sources from having a glow halo.  (They will still light up.  They just won't have the extra glow that many people find annoying.)

If neither of these changes helps your problem, or if they create other issues for you, you can undo them without any trouble.