With this very aranzullian title someone could immediately think of a trivial guide for beginners, while the need to enlarge the PC screen can mean at least 3 things that are not equivalent at all. 1) Zoom in on the overall size of everything you see as zooming the screen to see it better
2) Enlarge the screen resolution for a sharper view
3) Enlarge the desktop, the size of the text, icons and images on the screen to make good use of the space.
There may be a need to enlarge the screen because it looks bad or because you are using a very large monitor and would like to make better use of the available space and make everything more visible and easier to find.
Point by point, let 's see what it means to enlarge the PC screen in every possible intention .
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1) Zoom to the screen
In every Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 PC, you can zoom the screen to enlarge it in every part using a virtual magnifying glass very similar to the real one that is used on books.
The Windows magnifying glass is one of the accessibility tools dedicated to those who see little of it and find themselves looking for the English word Magnifier or Magnifying glass from the Start menu.
The Windows magnifying glass opens with a floating toolbar that you can move wherever you want.
This toolbar disappears when the zoom is in use and can be called up by moving the mouse over the lens icon to the position where it was left.
From the toolbar you can choose the zoom level by clicking on the + or - and moving to enlarge the screen by 200%, that is double.
You can use the screen magnifier in three ways: full screen, like a lens that only magnifies an area and in anchored mode, which is the most useful, with the magnification that appears at the top.
In docked mode the section showing the magnification can also be moved to the side, which is very convenient for those who use a very wide 16/9 monitor.
The zoom, in this mode, is automatic on the area near the mouse cursor.
The zoom can be controlled by pressing the Windows + and Windows - keys together or by pressing Windows 0 to set the zoom 100% or Windows Esc to exit the magnifying glass.
Remember that the Windows key is the one with the flag on the keyboard.
From the toolbar of the magnifying glass there is also an option key to decide how the zoom should move, whether by following the mouse pointer, if following the writing field of the keyboard or the insertion point of the text.
2) Enlarge the screen resolution
Increasing the screen resolution doesn't actually mean enlarging it, but on the contrary it makes everything smaller.
The resolution is in fact the number of horizontal and vertical pixels present on a screen, which is indicated by numbers such as 1920X1080 which means 1920 columns and 1080 rows.
If you have an image that has a fixed 50X50 resolution, it will be displayed smaller on a higher resolution monitor, with more columns and rows, than on a lower resolution monitor (if the monitors are of equal size)
If you set the system resolution to lower numbers with a large monitor, you would certainly see everything bigger, but less defined.
Resolution is a bit of a particular matter, because the more the monitor is good and expensive, the more it has a high resolution and a better image quality which, however, translates into a view of the elements of the icons, text and images. smaller.
I refer to the guide on the meaning of screen resolution for TV and monitor and for photos for further details.
To change the screen resolution with Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 you can right-click on the desktop to find the Display Settings .
Windows will give a maximum recommended resolution depending on the monitor you are using and which one will be chosen.
It is absolutely not convenient to sacrifice the screen resolution and decrease it because the icons or text are too small, instead go to point 3 to solve the problem.
Keep in mind that if a program were to give display problems, you can try to start it with minimum resolution by pressing its icon with the right button, going to Properties, on the Compatibility tab, choosing to open it with 640X480 resolution.
3) Enlarge only desktops, icons, writings, text and menus
This mode of enlarging the screen is not only useful for those with vision problems, but also for those who use a high-resolution monitor, to prevent the icons from being too small and leaving the entire screen free unnecessarily on the desktop.
In addition, you can easily enlarge the displayed text of all programs, all without looking blurry.
How to enlarge text and icons on Windows without blurring, I refer to another guide where there is also a Windows 10 DPI scaling program that, by default, has some problems in correctly scaling the size of the elements that are enlarged.
As seen, you can also zoom in on the mouse cursor.
Finally, I remember that on the Chrome, Firefox, Safari Internet Explorer and all browsers you can enlarge the view of the websites using the zoom commands or using the mouse wheel with the CTRL key pressed or pressing the CTRL + and CTRL- keys together.
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