7 Get a High Contrast scheme
If you’d like your display to be clearer, Windows has
another useful option: High Contrast. Once again it’s in Ease of
Access and it enables you to change the way Windows looks. It
gives you colour schemes specifically designed to have a really
big contrast between the light and dark colours. If they don’t
suit you can change their colours.
8 Get a bigger mouse
We can’t be the only ones who lose sight of the mouse
pointer. Good news: you can change that too. Once again it’s in
Settings > Ease of Access, but this time you want to click or tap on
the Cursor & Pointer link. Here you can changethecolour of the
pointer and its size. You can also adjust thethickness of the text
cursor, which is handy for apps such as Word.QQ5
Get a magnifying glass
What if you just want to zoom occasionally? Microsoft
has thought of that too. The Magnifier enables you to bring up
a magnifying lens or window whenever you press the Windows
key and the plus key (use Windows and minus to turn it off again).
You can turn the feature on and specify the zoom level in Settings
Ease of Access > Magnifier.
3 Make everything bigger
Sometimes everything on screen is just a little too small.
This is something we’ve encountered a lot with high-res screens,
where everything’s pin sharp but really, really tiny. You can fix that
by opening up Settings > System > Display and adjusting the bit
under “change the size of text, apps and other items”. Here we’ve
gone for 200%, which is much easier on the eye.
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Add a colour filter
Colour filters, also in Ease of Access, can be a real boon for
those of us whose sight isn’t as good as it could be. The filters can
be applied permanently or toggled on and off. There are three
filters: grayscale turns everything into shades of black, white and
grey; inverted makes black white, white black and so on; and
grayscale inverted does both.4 Make just the text bigger
If you’re fine with the size of Windows’ icons, images and
other bits and pieces, but just wish the text was a little bit
larger, you can do that too. Go to Settings > Ease of Access >
Display (or Settings > System > Display). You can now use the
slider to adjust the size of the on-screen sample text until it’s
the size you want it to be.Explore
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