Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Change screen resolution Windows XP, Vista, and Win 7

Change screen resolution
Changing resolution involves making the pixels closer together (higher res) or further apart (lower res).  Since you can’t physically make the screen larger (without replacing the whole screen), the trade of is that lower resolutions use more screen space, which displays less of the screen at a time (meaning you may need to scroll the screen over to see the other side).
Change screen resolution Windows XP: go to control panel / display and click settings.  Use the slider to the right to increase resolution, or to the left to decrease resolution.

Change screen resolution Windows Vista & Win 7: Click control panel / display and select adjust resolution.   Then you can slide the bar up or down to change resolution. 

You can also change the size of icons, etc. without changing screen resolution from the display panel.  I would suggest trying out the different magnification settings before changing screen resolution.   It can make things larger without affecting web pages, etc. as much.

2 comments:

  1. Yes, I think Windows 7 is a much better version than 8. We'll have to see what the new version brings later this year.

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