Lenovo X131E manual Presentations and multimedia, Changing display settings

Enabling or disabling the wireless features

To enable or disable the wireless features, do one of the following:

•For Windows 7: Press Fn+F5 to open the wireless radio switchboard. Turn on or turn off the wireless feature as desired.

•For Windows 8: Press Fn+F5 to enable or disable the Airplane mode. When the Airplane mode is enabled, all of your wireless devices are turned off.

You also can use the wireless radio switch to turn on or turn off the wireless radios of all the wireless devices on your computer.

Presentations and multimedia

You can connect your computer to a projector to give presentations or you can connect your computer to an external monitor to expand your workspace.

Changing display settings

You can change the display settings, such as the display resolution, font size, and so on.

To change the display settings, do the following:

1.Open Control Panel and click Appearance and Personalization.

2.Click Display for further configuration.

Connecting a projector or an external monitor

This topic provides information about connecting a projector or an external monitor.

Attaching an external monitor

Note: If you attach an external monitor, a video interface cable with a ferrite core installed on the cable is required.

Your computer can support a maximum video resolution of up to 2048x1536 (with an external monitor attached to the VGA connector) or up to 2560x1600 (with an external monitor attached to the HDMI connector), provided that the external monitor also supports that resolution. For more details, refer to the manuals provided with your monitor.

You can set any resolution for either the computer display or the external monitor. When you use both at the same time, the resolution of both is the same. If you set a higher resolution for the computer display, you can see only part of the screen at a time. You can see other parts by moving the image with the TrackPoint pointing device or another pointing device.

You can switch the display output between the computer display and the external monitor, or even output the display to both of the computer display and the external monitor by changing the configuration in the Display Settings window.

Connecting an external monitor

To attach an external monitor, do the following:

1.Connect the external monitor to the monitor connector; then connect the monitor to an electrical outlet.

2.Turn on the external monitor.

3.Change the display output location by pressing Fn+F7. This enables you to switch between viewing output on the external monitor, the computer monitor, and both monitors.

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