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Book VIII
Chapter 1
Finding and
Installing the
Hardware You Need
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Upgrading the Basic Stuff
3. If you have more than one monitor, you can also choose where to
show the desktop (see Table 1-2 for details).
4. To change the resolution on either display, click either the 1 moni-
tor or the 2 monitor, and then adjust the resolution using the slider
shown in Figure 1-4.
Figure 1-4:
Adjusting
the reso-
lution on a
correctly
identified
LCD monitor
always
results in
fuzzy text.
If Windows 7 properly identified your monitor and you have a suffi-
ciently powerful video card, this dialog box should already show the
monitor’s native resolution. Be intensely aware of the fact that lower-
ing the resolution of your LCD screen, below its native resolution, only
makes the text look worse. (See the preceding section to find your
monitor’s native resolution.)
If Windows doesn’t let you set your monitor to its native resolution, you
need to get a better video card. Some video cards can’t support odd res-
olutions, and very high resolutions require capable cards. You’re trying
to pump 10 pounds of video from a 5-pound card.
5. Click the Apply button.
Windows 7 changes the display’s resolution and opens a dialog box that
asks whether you want to keep the new settings.