Changing Screen Resolution

This is a quick and easy tip, but since someone emailed me this question I thought that it might be useful to more than just one person. Changing screen resolution is as simple as pie, basically screen resolution just deals with how much is shown on your monitor and how much space you have. So, lets say you go for a resolution of 1024 x 786 Pixels. Well things will look a bit smaller, but you'll have more work area, if you have a screen resolution of 800 x 600 the icons will appear bigger and you'll have less space on your desktop. Screen resolution can be limited based on your video devices, some monitor / adapters can't go higher than 800 x 600, but I haven't seen one in a while :o) Here is the steps:

Step 1

Right click on your desktop and you'll get this box:

Click on the properties box and a second Window will open:

Click on the tab that says Settings at the top. Move to the slider that says Screen resolution...moving the slider to the right will make the screen resolution greater, moving it to the left will make it less. Note you can also change the color quality in this box. Click okay, the screen resolution will change and Windows will ask if you want to keep this resolution and you hit OK. There you have it, your screen resolution is changed!