Winbook XP5 User Manual page 50

The Windows Display Properties Control Panel
To change the display driver setup you should use the 'Display' section of the Control Panel. To
access it, do as follows:
1.Run the Windows Control panel. Click on the 'Start' button. Point at'Settings'and
then'ControlPanel'inthe sub-menu thatpopsup and click on 'Control Panel' to bring it
up.
2.Find the 'Display' icon double-click on it to run the Display Properties control
panel. Click on the 'Settings' tab so that the display options appears.
[XP5 6-12]
The Display Properties control panel has sections to set the number of colors, screen size, system
font size and to change the display driver. You can access Help information on these by clicking
on the question mark at the upper right-hand corner of the box. You must restart Windows for
any driver configuration changes to take effect.
[XP5 6-13]
'color palette'
This section sets maximum number of colors displayed. The options
To set the color depth, click on the down arrow to display the list of options and then click on the
option you want.
Anything higher than the "256 Color" setting will only display completely on an external
monitor. The LCD will work at any setting, but the controller ignores what the LCD cannot
display and displays at most 640 x 480 x 4096 colors whatever the Display Properties Settings
are. This means you can leave the 'Color palette' setting selected for the configuration you use
with an external monitor while you are using only the LCD screen. When you connect an
external monitor, the selected resolution and number of colors will display on the monitor screen,
even when both screens are active.
listed represent the following:
16 Color 4-bit color, the standard VGA color setting which displays up
to 16 colors simultaneously.
256 Color 8-bit color, which displays up to 256 colors simultaneously.
High Color 16-bit color, displays up to 64,000-plus colors
simultaneously.
True Color 24-bit color, displays up to 16 million-plus colors
simultaneously.