Optimum Screen Resolution Settings
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Ease of viewing Computer Screens depends on the following:

1. Size of the Monitor/ Screen. (it is common to refer to CRT as Monitors and LCD as Screen). Today, screen sizes begin at 14" and go on to 17" for Notebooks, with normal and Wide Screen varieties being available. For Desktops, screen sizes ranging from 15" to over 21" are available, again in both traditional as well as Wide Screen formats

2. The distance between your eyes and the Screen/ Monitor. Recommended distance is 150* of the screen size. Therefore if your screen is 15" (screen size is always measured diagonally), you ought to be sitting at a distance of between 20 and 22 Inches away from it

3. The condition of your eyes. If you are short-sighted/ long-sited (Myopia/ Hypermetropia), you would not feel comfortable viewing the same screen from the same distance, as someone who has perfect vision

4. Type of Graphical Processing Unit (GPU). High-end GPUs are capable of displaying very high resolutions, even on common 15" screens

Currently, the largest number of Monitors (both CRT and LCD put together) have the 15" size. For a 15" Monitor, a screen size of 1024 x 768 would suit most users. However, there is no single screen resolution that fits every user, every screen size and every Graphical Processing Unit. Hence, the best way to find out the settings that suit you best, we recommend you experiment with the settings, checking the most likely ones.

Screen Resolution is expressed in Pixels. Each of the dimensions - Length and Breadth - are assigned Pixels. The higher the number of Pixels, the smaller will be the text and image sizes. However, since the size of the displayed text and images are smaller, more text and images can fit into the same screen size. Here are some typical Screen Resolutions:

1. 640 x 480

2. 800 x 600

3. 1024 x 768

4. 1280 x 960

All these are screen resolutions that are found in the older Square screens. Note that the ratio of Breadth to Depth is 4:3 in all the above cases. The Breadth to Depth ratio is called Aspect Ratio

You would also have come across Wide Screen Computers. These have different Aspect Ratios, like 16:9 and 16:10. There are different technologies at play here, with each having a different name, depending on the Aspect Ratio. Here are some of these technologies, along with their Screen Resolutions, Aspect Ratios and expanded names:

Although your Computer may be able to display very high resolutions, the display may prove to be too small for you to view comfortably - and view comfortably for long periods of time.

On the other hand, too small a resolution (meaning, larger size of text) is not recommended either: to view a page, you will need to scroll that much more, be it a web page, Word document, Spreadsheet, whatever...

Here is a link that tracks Browser Resolutions and Screen Color Settings on a yearly basis. It is difficult to capture the screen resolution or color settings used by a Computer user while he/ she is working on, say, a Word processor, but relatively easy to do these while the user is browsing. Moreover, it is unusual for any user to change screen resolution or the color settings for browsing alone. Therefore, these statistics apply very well to to Screen Resolution and Color Settings trends worldwide.

Here is the link that tracks Screen Resolution and Color Settings on a yearly basis: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

To experiment with your Screen Resolution settings and arrive at the optimal one, follow the steps outlined below: