Portrait display in Windows 7

06.08.11 Posted in Hints and Tips by Shift Team

Have you ever tried reading or writing long pages of documents on a wide screen monitor? How about navigating through a site with long web pages using a wide screen? Don’t you notice that you keep grabbing you mouse and scrolling through the pages? Well I do and sometimes it annoys me. Luckily, Windows has a solution for that. Windows 7 now has a built-in portrait option on their display settings.

But 1^st, lets understand the difference between portrait and landscape. As clearly shown on the figure below, landscape is oriented horizontally or simply, the width is greater than the height. Portrait is other way around. The height is greater than the width or vertically oriented.

Portrait orientation comes in handy when you’re going through long pages. A portrait orientation easily fits 1-2 pages in the screen without sacrificing the readability of the documents. Very helpful when your reading your favorite Ebook. Landscape on the other hand is best when you need a wide area of visibility on your screen. Like when playing games or when you’re using wide tables for your reports. It is the default orientation for windows.

Adjusting the display orientation on Windows 7 is quite easy. Here are simple ways to change your display from Landscape to Portrait.

Basic way is to:

1. Press the Start Button (or windows icon) on the taskbar
2. Go to Control Panel
3. Go to Appearance and Personalization
4. Click on Display
5. Then Click on “Change Display Settings” located on the left side.
6. Change orientation and the click apply. (See Fig. 1.2)
7. The orientation of the Display will then be changed and you will be asked to keep the display setting or not.

Fig. 1.2

Another way to change the display settings is simply to:

1. Go to your desktop
2. Right Click on the screen and click Personalize
3. On the bottom left side of the window, click on Display
4. Then Click on “Change Display Settings” located on the left side.
5. And then you will still arrive on Fig. 1.2

These are the simple ways in changing the display orientation on your pc. Now you can easily change the orientation of your display according to your preference. May it be landscape or Portrait.