Windows Vista™ Plain & Simple

Changing the Display

If you want to squeeze more items onto your Desktop, you can change its size...sort of. This is one of those "virtual" realities. You "enlarge" the available space by changing the screen resolution, and thereby the scaling, which lets you fit more items onto the Desktop even though its area on your screen doesn’t get any larger. Your gain in virtual area comes at a cost, though—everything will be smaller and harder to read. Also, changes to the screen resolution and the color quality change the system demands on the video memory (the memory on your computer that’s dedicated to producing the video image on your monitor). Therefore, you might need to adjust both the screen resolution and the color quality until you’re happy ...