You can adjust the OS resolution through the Control Panel or by right-clicking the desktop. Reducing the resolution will increase the size of text, images, etc. accordingly, though it will also decrease the amount of screen real estate (the amount of content viewable on one screen). But if you cannot read what's on the screen now, the extra content serves little purpose.
Hope this helps,
John
We just got our new HP with Windows 7. I have had no luck in trying to increase the size of the fonts on the menu panel and Windows, email and Explorer toolbars so we can see without putting our reading glasses right up to the screen. I had no problems enlarging these items on my old Dell with XP. Am I missing something? Can someone help us?
JenAnne, Victoria,BC

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