Are you not completely satisfied with the settings of your screen? Fortunately, you can make some changes in Windows 10, making texts or icons easier to see, for example. That’s how it works.
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Step 1: Resolution
The basis of an optimal screen setting is choosing the correct resolution. Each display has only one optimal resolution setting. If you do not set the resolution correctly, your screen may show the images blurred. Go to Start / Settings / System / Display / Advanced display settings. Bee Resolution you can see the current settings. The setting that suits your screen has an addition Recommended. Check this and adjust it if necessary.
Also read: How to display text larger in Windows 10.
Step 2: ‘DPI scaling’
DPI scaling is a lesser known setting. A wrong setting produces strange effects. For example, your icons seem too large or are unreadable small. Go to Control Panel / Appearance and Personalization / Display and click on Set custom scaling level. The best setting is 100%, but if you have bad eyesight you can scale this up to 125%, 150%, 200% or higher. Everything in Windows becomes larger with this adjustment (or smaller if you switch back to 100%).
A wrong setting for ‘dpi scaling’ can cause icons to be displayed much too small (or too large).
Step 3: Colors and text
Special hardware allows you to optimally calibrate your display, but this will be too much of a good thing for most people. Windows also has its own calibration options. Go to Start / Settings / System / Display / Advanced display settings / Calibrate display colors. A wizard guides you step by step to the most ideal settings for your monitor. You can always run the wizard again if it later turns out that you don’t like the end result. Finally, there is the optimization of the readability of text. You can adjust this at the Advanced display settings. click on ClearType text and go through the wizard. Windows always shows a piece of text and lets you choose which one you find the most readable. In this way, text becomes much easier to read and you can benefit from it every day while surfing the internet and emailing.
Go through the wizards to optimize colors and text display.
If your monitor still does not display the image properly, it may be that your computer screen just has problems. Think of blurry images, colors that are not clear and other such problems. Fortunately, these can often be solved in an instant. You can read more about this in this article.
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