Exercise 1: Ensure That the Computer Is in High DPI Mode

In this exercise, you ensure that the computer running Windows 7 is in high DPI mode at the 144 DPI setting. To avoid the log off and log on processes, you do not make any changes to the DPI setting in this exercise.

Task 1 - Check that the Module Computer is set to the 144 DPI Setting

  1. On the Start menu, click Control Panel.
  2. In the Search text box at the upper-right corner of Control Panel, type display, and a list of results appears, as shown in the following screen shot:

  3. Click the Display heading, and you should see a dialog box that looks like the following screen shot, with the Larger – 150% radio button selected (if not, select it). This indicates that the module computer is set to the 144 DPI setting, because 150% of the normal DPI (96 DPI) is equal to 144 DPI.