Video Settings
Your WinBook notebook provides you with a wide range of video controls and options. You should take a little time to familiarize yourself with these aspects of your machine.
Your WinBook notebook allows you to adjust the brightness of the LCD screen by using hot-key combinations: [Fn]+[➔] to increase screen bright- ness and [Fn]+[ ➔] to decrease screen brightness. You will need to hold this combination for several seconds to see any effect. These keys will not set the screen completely bright or dark; they will provide small adjustments to account for room lighting. Your WinBook notebook will support a num- ber of resolutions. Resolution is a measure of the number of pixels (a pixel is a single dot of color on the screen). Depending on the unit you pur- chased, your display will support a resolution of up to either 800 x 600 pixels with up to 16 million colors or 1024 x 768 pixels with up to 16 mil- lion colors. Notice that when you put your computer into the DOS mode, which uses the VGA resolution (640 x 480) as a default, the display will be stretched to fit the full screen. Your unit also has a hot-key combination that allows you manually to expand or decrease the size of the display for programs set to the 640x480 mode; press [Fn]+[F9] to toggle the size of the display.
If you lower the resolution of your LCD, you may find that the desktop area might be slightly pixilated. The highest resolution of your LCD screen will provide the sharpest image. This should not be the case for an external monitor. When you are displaying the video on the built- in screen, you cannot choose a higher resolution than the standard resolution. However, you can use a higher resolution when you output the notebook’s video to an external monitor that supports high resolutions. When using an external monitor, the WinBook notebook will support the following resolutions:
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