The Screen Resolution and Color Depth Tutorial
Click here to return to "Determining Your Sreen Resolution"
This is how to change your settings in a
Windows '95 or Windows '98 environment.
Changing your system's setting is easy - but be reminded that depending on your video card
will determine how drastically you can change these settings. To get to this screen, you
can right-click on the desktop. A menu should come up that says this (see picture)...
"Properties" will not be highlighted as I have it in this picture.
You're going to want to click on the "Properties" selection. (I have it highlighted in yellow) It will bring you to a screen similar to this (see picture)... The "systems" panel is highlighted in yellow. (it won't look exactly like that on your computer, and the number of panels may be fewer - or different)
What you want to do now is click on the "settings" panel and it will bring you to another screen. (shown here)
You can now select different color palettes to increase your color depth. Also, by
dragging your slider bar on the "Desktop Area" will increase or decrease its
size. Keep in mind though, the higher the desktop area - the less amount of colors you can
display in the "Color palette". Most computers are now capable of an 800x600
desktop area (resolution) and 16-bit color, and that's what we recommend our web site to
be viewed with.