How to Set Up Your Computer Monitor Properly

Setting up your computer monitor properly ensures that the resolution and color are at their best before usage. This step is often overlooked, but not everyone knows its importance. Especially for those who frequently change computer monitors or wallpapers on their desktop, setting up the monitor properly is essential. Imagine when you change your desktop wallpaper to make it look better; the resolution will largely determine this.

And it's not just the resolution; even the color, brightness, contrast, and icons on the desktop contribute significantly. Therefore, setting up your computer monitor properly will help you optimize all these steps in the most standard order you should follow. Whether your computer is in use or freshly installed with Windows, setting up a standard PC monitor is always necessary.

Guide to Setting Up Your Computer Monitor Properly

1. Adjusting Screen Resolution.

Screen Resolution - The first factor we need to set when setting up our computer monitor properly is the screen resolution. With a standard resolution monitor, images will display sharply. Here's how to change the screen resolution of your computer monitor:

Step 1: Right-click on the desktop and select Display Settings.

Note: On Windows 7, select Properties and go to Resolution.

Step 2: Here, you will see a section called Resolution, click on it to change the screen resolution.

Step 3: There are many resolutions available here, but not all resolutions are suitable for your computer monitor. The operating system also suggests by choosing the resolution with the Recommended characteristics. In this article, we choose 1920 x1080 Full HD resolution, which is widely used today.

Of course, you can still try other resolutions if you want. You can Revert to default settings or wait for 15 seconds if that resolution is not supported by your monitor.

2. Adjusting Screen Brightness.

Screen Brightness refers to adjusting the brightness of the computer screen, a matter of concern for many due to the default maximum brightness not being satisfactory for everyone as it may be too bright for some. When setting up the computer monitor properly, this is the second criterion you need to address after adjusting the screen resolution.

For some computers, laptops running Windows 10, we can adjust it right at the battery icon with 4 brightness levels provided.

Or go to Display Settings as mentioned earlier, where you are allowed to adjust the brightness from 0% to 100%. Additionally, there's a Night light mode to protect your eyes from white light, replacing it with a yellow hue for a gentler effect on the eyes.

Note: At 0% brightness, the screen is dim but not completely black.

As for laptops running Windows 7, for example, we can access the Edit Power Plan section by searching for Power Plan in the Start Menu.

Here, you can adjust the brightness settings for when the laptop is plugged in or running on battery power.

3. Adjusting Contrast - Calibrate Color.

Calibrate color allows us to adjust colors, fine-tune the display colors on the computer screen. To access Calibrate color, follow these steps:

Step 1: Open Start Menu, type calibrate and access Calibrate Display color.

Step 2: A welcoming screen with basic information about Calibrate color will appear, but we can simply press Next to proceed.

Step 3: First, it allows us to adjust the brightness and darkness of colors. You can customize them to suit your eyes the best.

Step 4: Next is to explore colors and brightness, here it's just exploration, not setup, so you can choose to press Skip or Next to continue.

Step 5: The next step is to adjust the color balance of the screen with 3 basic RGB colors (Red - Green - Blue).

Once you're satisfied with the calibration results, simply click on Finish. If not, click on Previous Calibration to start over or select Current calibration to set up basic settings according to the computer.

Step 6: The final part is the ClearType Text Tuner, where you can set the sharpness of the text, your task is to identify the clearest font size.

You will need to check a total of 5 times with various font sizes to determine the clearest font size, which is also a way to help your eyes recognize text on the computer.

After completing, we just need to click on Finish to finish.

4. Adjusting Desktop Icons - Desktop Icons.

Setting up icons on the computer screen is not difficult, its features are quite simple, and you can set it up yourself if you understand the following steps:

First, right-click on the desktop and choose View, where you will see the following options:

- Large icons: Set to display large icons.

- Medium icons: Set to display medium icons, default on the computer.

- Small icons: Set to display small icons.

- Auto Arrange icons: Automatically arrange icons on the desktop screen.

- Align icons to Grid: Automatically align icons on the desktop screen.

- Show desktop icons: Display icons on the desktop screen.

As shown below is the screen with icons set to Medium.

And here is the screen with Large icons.

With all the above steps, you have set up your computer monitor most properly before using your computer or laptop. The steps to set up a computer monitor in the article only apply to the computer or laptop in the article and depend on your computer or laptop as well as your perception to set it up most reasonably.

For those who are new to using Windows, they often face difficulties in handling issues, especially screen rotation issues that make users uncomfortable. Therefore, we need to have basic knowledge about this issue, understanding the keyboard shortcuts to rotate the computer screen will help us troubleshoot this issue more easily. Refer to how to rotate computer screen with Mytour's guide to learn more about this issue.