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5-5Lesson 1 Configuring and Troubleshooting the Display

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Figure 5-2

Use the Desktop Items dialog box to control what appears on your desktop.

To access the Desktop Items dialog box, on the Desktop tab, click Customize Desktop.

The Desktop Items dialog box allows you to include or exclude an icon for My Docu-

ments, My Computer, My Network Places, and the Internet Explorer on your desktop,

as well as to customize the icons used to represent these items. You can also configure

the frequency with which the Desktop Cleanup Wizard runs. The default setting for

running the Desktop Cleanup Wizard is every 60 days. Click Clean Desktop Now to

run the Desktop Cleanup Wizard immediately. The Desktop Cleanup Wizard removes

icons from the desktop that have not been used in the last 60 days, but it does not

remove any programs from your computer.

To include Web content on your desktop, in the Desktop Items dialog box, click the

Web tab. Any Web page listed in the Web Pages text box can be included on your

desktop by selecting it. Click New to add a Web page and click Delete to remove a

Web page from the list. Click Properties to view the Properties dialog box for the Web

page. The Properties dialog box allows you to make the Web page available offline,

synchronize immediately or schedule the synchronization of this offline Web page with

the content on the Internet, and specify whether you want Internet Explorer to down-

load more than just the top-level page of this Web site.

Note If you want Internet Explorer to download more than just the top-level page, you can

specify up to three levels deep, but specifying three levels deep downloads all the pages

linked to the second-level pages. This process can quickly result in hundreds of pages,

depending on how many links are on each page.

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Use the Settings tab to control the color quality and screen resolution of the desktop.

Table 5-2 describes the options available in the Settings tab for configuring the display

settings.

Table 5-2

Settings Tab Options for Configuring the Display

Option Description

Color Quality The Color Quality setting displays the current color configuration for the

monitor attached to the video adapter listed under Display. This option allows

you to change the color quality for the display adapter. You should set this

value to the highest quality available for your chosen screen resolution

because using a higher-quality color depth does not significantly affect perfor-

mance.

Screen

Screen Resolution controls the current resolution settings for the monitor

Resolution

attached to the video adapter listed under Display. This option allows you to

set the resolution for the display adapter. As you increase the number of pix-

els, you display more information on the screen, but you decrease the size of

the fonts and pictures. Users will need to experiment with resolutions until

they find one that strikes a good balance between amount of information dis-

played and the size of that information. You should also note that many LCD

monitors operate at a fixed native resolution. Changing the resolution on these

monitors might make the information displayed look bad.

Identify Identify displays large numbers on the desktop of each monitor in a multiple-

display configuration. This helps you identify which physical monitor corre-

sponds to each displayed monitor on the Settings tab. For more information

on using multiple displays, see the section “How to Configure Multiple

Displays,” later in this lesson.

Troubleshoot Troubleshoot opens the Video Display Troubleshooter to aid you in diagnos-

ing display problems.

Advanced Advanced opens the Properties dialog box for the display adapter, as

described next.