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LCD Display
Your WinBook notebook comes with a back-lit LCD display panel. The
intensity of the panel will vary slightly with your angle to the screen. You
can adjust the angle of the panel to provide optimal clarity. You can also
make minor adjustments in screen brightness and contrast by using the hot
key combinations built into your WinBook notebook: [Fn]+[F6] and
[Fn]+[F7] to adjust brightness and [Fn]+[F8] and [Fn]+[F9] to adjust
contrast.
Depending on the screen that was built into your
WinBook notebook, your display will support a
resolution of 800 x 600 pixels or 1024 x 768 pixels with
up to 64K colors. If you use the Windows Display
Properties window (see below) to change down to a
resolution lower than the standard resolution of
your screen, the display will not occupy the full
size of the built-in screen (although it might on an
external monitor). 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. When you are dis-
playing the video on the built-in screen, you cannot
choose a higher resolution than the standard resolu-
tion. However, you can use a higher resolution when
you output the notebook’s video to an external monitor
that supports high resolutions.
You can quickly adjust the resolution and
number of color settings through Windows’s
Display Properties window. To open this window,
locate the red ATI display icon on the taskbar.
Right-click on this icon to bring up the ATI menu.
Select “Settings” and then “Display Settings” to
bring up the display menu. Click on the Settings
tab. (Figure 1.9)
Chapter 1: Getting Started
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Figure 1.9: The Display Properties Window
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