Make your computer easier to read - Video Tip

Submitted by Adam on September 18, 2007 - 9:46pm.

Setting up a new flat panel monitor can be a mixed blessing. While the new screens are small, sharp and beautiful, they are also high resolution. This means that everything that used to fit in one inch on your screen now fits in a fraction of an inch as more dots are crammed closer together. This makes the image sharper, but the text size and all other objects on the screen much smaller.

Here are a few tips that can help make the fonts, icons and text much larger and easier to read.

To make these changes, right-click on a blank area of your desktop and click on properties.

Under appearance:

Set to large or extra large fonts
Click on the EFFECTS tab and check the Use large icons box

Click on the Settings tab and click on the ADVANCED button. Change the DPI from 96 to 120. Don't go much higher unless you are very visually impaired.

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