Windows 7 – View alittle differently!

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Hi there,

Clinton here, with some more juicy, very juicy thoughts in and around Windows 7.

RTM Enterprise edition is so fresh! This is really such a great time and era for change.
All companies out there should embrace this solid, reliable and fast operating system with both hands and feet. Bear hug time!

As a specialist, I’m fully aware of old habits and daily quirks users carry with them to work. You get those users who like to fill their desktops full of icons and attachments.
Ordered chaos they say….”I know where my files are…ok!”

Or users who have shortcuts stored inside a desktop folder. Others prefer to stack there links a mile high on their start menus.
Whatever the flavour of person, Windows 7 has understood and realised your funny ways. And hey that’s all good – coz it’s you!

So touching on one of the personalisation features that users enjoy:

Windows Desktop Resolutions – Dots per inch (DPI)

Ok so to kick things off, studies have been conducted around the environment of screen resolution settings. These environments are almost the first ports of
call for users who prefer to read their content close up. In fact some studies have revealed that over 55% of users set their resolutions to a lower setting even if their
system is capable of higher outputs.

This quote comes from Engineering Windows 7 site, published September 13, 2008:

We don’t have a way of knowing for sure why users adjust their screen resolution down, but many of the
comments we’ve seen match our hypothesis that a lot of people do this to because they have difficulty reading default text on high resolutions
displays. With that said, some users probably stumble into this configuration by accident; for example due to a mismatched display driver or an
application that changed the resolution for some reason but did not change it back.

So with all this revelation about screens and resolutions what are you using? Well it’s very likely that you’re using a high dot per inch (DPI) type display. If you
are still working on Windows XP, or Windows Vista you’re also not getting the best resolutions and settings out of your monitor.
Do you always squint to read text and then quickly change to a lower resolution to accommodate? Stop this!

With Windows 7, you will not have to worry about this issue. Building on top of the improvements already made to support high DPIs in Windows Vista, Windows 7 is set to make
changing DPIs as intuitive and as “safe” as changing resolutions.Just to take it one step further, Windows 7 will even choose the most appropriate or recommended DPI for you when you install

Make the text on your screen larger or smaller

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You can make the text and other items, such as icons, on your screen easier to see by making them larger. You can do this without changing the screen resolution
of your monitor or laptop screen. This enables you to increase or decrease the size of text and other items on your screen while keeping your monitor or laptop set to its optimal resolution.

Right-Click on your desktop
Select the option, Screen Resolution.
Select the link, Make text and other items larger or smaller.
Choose one of the following:
- Smaller – 100% (default). This keeps text and other items at normal size.
- Medium – 125%. This sets text and other items to 125% of normal size.
- Larger – 150%. This sets text and other items to 150% of normal size. This
  option appears only if your monitor supports a resolution of at least
  1200 x 900 pixels.
Click Apply.