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Monitor Setting

Changing the Aspect Ratio

  • Aspect Ratio is the ratio of the width to the height of an image or screen.

  • This screen resolution also depends s on the physical size of your PC display and its resolution.

  • Changing aspect ratio is to change the resolution.

  • Here is the aspect ratio of different resolution.

  • 3:2 - 480 x 320; 720 x 480

  • 4:3 - 240 x 180; 240 x 640; 384 x 288

  • 16:9 - 640 x 360; 960 x 540; 1280 x 720; 1920 x 1080

  • 16:10 - 1280 x 800

  • Go to your Desktop, right-click your mouse and go to Display Settings.

Right Click on Desktop

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  • Here you can adjust the size of text, app, and the change the orientation.

  • To change the resolution, click on Advanced Display Settings.

Click here

  • 1920x1080 is the recommended screen resolution for my PC.

  • It may be different for you.

  • To modify the resolution, click on the drop-down menu.

  • Select the one you want.

It is best to leave the settings at their default values.

  • Click on Apply.

  • Ignore the notification and confirm your Screen Resolution changes by clicking on Keep The Changes.

  • Now we changed the resolution to 800x600 which literally means 4:3 aspect ratio.

  • This aspect ratio look like below pic.

Aspect ratio changed to 4:3

Changing Vertical to Horizontal

  • To rotate the screen from vertical to horizontal in PC, follow these steps.

  • There is a keyboard shortcut to rotate the screen, press Ctrl + Alt + Arrow.

  • Another method, Right click on desktop > select Display setting.

  • Select Landscape from the orientation menu.​​

  • Click Apply.

  • Click Keep Changes when prompted.​​

  • This is how a horizontal screen (Portrait) looks like.

Ctrl + Alt + Arrow

Move the Taskbar to Side

  • We will see how to move the taskbar from the default position & how to restore the taskbar back to the default position.

  • Make sure the Lock the Taskbar option is not enabled. 

  • To do so, right click on Taskbar > uncheck the Lock the Taskbar

Right-click on Taskbar

  • To move the taskbar from its default position along the bottom edge of the screen to any of the other three edges of the screen, click on a blank portion of the taskbar.

  • Hold down and then drag that to place on the right edge of the screen.

Taskbar on right.

  • Drag the taskbar to left edge of the screen.

Taskbar on left.

  • Drag the taskbar to left edge of the screen.

Taskbar on top.

Setup Screensaver for 3 Minute

  • To open screensaver setting, type "Screen Saver" in the search bar.

  • Click on Change Screen Saver.

  • Alternatively,  right-click on your Windows 10 desktop > select Personalize > Lock screen > Screen Saver Setting.

Serch & open Change Screen Saver 

  • Here you can adjust the setting according to your own preferences.

  • I set a wait time 3 min., it means a user is not interacting with PC, the screen saver will appear.

Set a style

Set the wait time

(3 min.)

Make Changes Here

Check for log out

  • After 3 min of inactivity of the user, it is going to show the screen saver.

  • And it will log out.

  • The user needs to enter the password to get logged in.

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