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 How to: Change your Screen Resolution Tired of all those annoying scroll bars on websites, documents, etc? Want to get a bigger screen and not pay 300 bucks? Well, here's a simple little trick that many folks have never even thought of: CHANGE YOUR SCREEN RESOLUTION! What is "screen resolution" you say? Well, all images that you view on the web, or on your desktop are made up of dots. There are a certain number of dots across, and a certain number of dots down. These two numbers put together is the resolution of the image (or your desktop).  Make sense? Sure it does! We've been messing around with dots to make a picture every since the first photograph appeared in a newspaper. This is the exact same thing, only they're electronic, not ink. Now, your computer sends the picture of "what it's thinking" to your monitor at a certain resolution. If you're curious as to what resolution is on your system, then you can minimize all your open windows to get to your desktop, put the mouse pointer anywhere on the desktop and right click. You'll see this little popup menu:  Select Properties and this window will appear: 
See the "Settings" tab, click on that and you'll see what your computer's "Screen Area" is. Pixels is just a fancy name for dots, by the way. Now, put on your thinking cap, because this is hard (not)! To INCREASE the resolution of your screen, just put your mouse pointer on the scroller and slide it to the right 
As you slide it, the resolution numbers will increase. Don't worry, your computer won't let you overdo it. 1024x768 dots is a reasonable setting, but your computer may be able to go even higher. Once you've got it set to where you want it, just click the APPLY button. You'll be asked if you want to take a look with or without restarting your computer...no need to restart the computer, so just select that option and click OK. Your screen will probably go black for a second then will reappear with your new setting. If you like it, just click YES and you're DONE! If you don't, then click NO and your original settings will be restored. You'll notice right off that everything is smaller...that's because now you've got more room to maneuver! If you're having a hard time reading items on your desktop, or in your Internet Explorer, here's a couple of things you can do to save your poor eyes: Change the font size for Internet Explorer  And to make things bigger on your desktop, go back to your Display Properties box (see above), and right under where you just set the screen resolution, click on the button that says "Advanced"  On the General tab, look for the section called "Font Size".  You can pull down this list box and select a larger font size (you may have to restart your computer before you actually see the change). Try it for a day or two and see if it grows on you (I'm betting it does). If it doesn't, then you can just repeat the above steps and set your resolution back to the way it was. Now wasn't that easy? |