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How to: Make your netbook screen easier to use

Make your netbook screen easier to useWhile the compact size of netbooks makes them ideal for regular travel use, their tiny screens can often be awkward to use, when reading multiple  pages of text or browsing the internet. Their low screen resolutions somewhat compensates, but to make life easier, it's well worth increasing your netbook's defualt font size, to make text bigger and more comfortabel to see.

To do this in Windows XP - the current netbook favourite - browse to Start > Control Panel > Display > Appearance, then set the Font size to either Large or Extra Large, depending on your needs.

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