no, they just showed up. This should give you some idea of the level of screen real estate you get with a monitor of this size and resolution: (edit: it resized it so its not as big, but you can see scale wise how much you get based on the txt and icons) The color depth is WAYYY better than my dell led monitor i bought less than a year ago!!! here is the link to the one i got: http://www.ebay.com/itm/160993868520?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649