2. Personalizing Your System

This chapter will help you make your system an extension of your personality.

Changing Display Settings

Your Display settings can be located through Control Panel. You can also get to them quickly by working off the Screen Resolution settings, accessed off the desktop through a new shortcut you can access by right-clicking the desktop and choosing Screen Resolution.

The new Screen Resolution settings (see Figure 2.1) are very easy to work with. You can choose your display and resolution. You can click the Detect button to locate attached monitors/projectors. Click the Identify button to display a number for the display you are looking at. Using that information, you can choose the monitor and the display and resolution ...

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