How to Change the Screen Resolution

Video Transcript

"Hi, Michael Burton with Michael Burton films.org located in Salt Lake City, Utah and we are here talking about Microsoft Windows. What I want to talk to you now about is how to change your screen resolution. Let me start out by saying that Windows XP is registered trademark of Microsoft and I am in no way affiliated with Microsoft. To change your screen resolution there is a couple of ways you can do this. You can right click on your desktop, scroll down to properties, your display properties menu. If you look up here there is a number of tabs. Themes, desktop, screen saver, appearance and settings. You are going to want to choose your settings tabs on the right hand side. If you notice it brings up a couple of options here for you. It's showing the type of display that you currently have. Then right here on your left hand side it shows screen resolution. I have the resolution turned up all the way. 1440X900 pixels. My color quality is set to 32 bits. From the drop down menu I can also choose 16 bits but I have chosen 32 bits because this is a LCD monitor and it looks really good with a lot of color. To get more advanced options, right here below the color quality, there is a button that says advanced, go ahead and click on advanced. This brings up a few more options for you. To change your DPI, currently I have my text set at 96 DPI. Lets go ahead and move these screens over or at least this screen, if I were to go ahead and change this screen to 120 DPI, I can apply and click yes and if we close out of this our DPI will change. Of course it is asking us to reset the computer but as you've noticed the test on the desktop over here on the left hand side has changed dramatically. It's gotten bigger. That's your DPI. We are going to go ahead and say no to restarting the computer and I'm going to right click again and go back to my properties. Notice how all of our text is bigger. I'm going to go back in to settings, back in to advance and I'm going to change my DPI back to 96. That's currently what I have my computer set to. We're going to click OK. We are going to click apply, yes. So basically as you can see out of the settings tab under the display properties is how you change your resolution. You can change your DPI. You can change your color quality. That's how you keep your computer up to date."