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For Seniors: Create a Windows 7 User Account
Windows 7 allows you to create different user accounts so each person who uses the computer can work with his or her personal Windows environment. After multiple user accounts are created, each user of [more…]
For Seniors: Switch Windows User Accounts
Windows 7 allows supports multiple user accounts so each person can work with his or her personal Windows environment. After multiple user accounts are created, each user of that computer must select the [more…]
For Seniors: Change Your User Account Picture
Change the picture associated with your Windows user account so you can more easily identify it when you log on. The user account picture can be anything — from an actual photo of you to a graphic image [more…]
For Seniors: Make Your Laptop Touchpad Easier to Use
Laptops come with a touchpad instead of a mouse, and the touchpads take some getting used to. In place of the touchpad, Windows 7 allows you to use the numeric keypad to move the mouse from time to time [more…]
For Seniors: Customize Your Windows Laptop’s Display
Customize your Windows laptop’s display by changing the Windows screen resolution, desktop background, window appearance, or screen saver. Customizing the appearance of your Windows laptop not only makes [more…]
For Seniors: Set Your Windows Screen Resolution
Your Windows screen resolution controls how large and how crisp items appear onscreen. Higher screen resolutions produce smaller, but crisper images. Lower screen resolutions produce larger, but somewhat [more…]
For Seniors: ChangeYour Laptop’s Desktop Background
Windows allows you to change the desktop background on your laptop to a picture or a color that appeals to you. Personalizing the Windows desktop may seem like an inconsequential thing, but it’s the little [more…]
For Seniors: Choose a Windows 7 Theme for Your Laptop
Windows 7 has built-in themes that you can apply to change the appearance of your windows, desktop background, screen saver, and even mouse cursors and system sounds. Windows themes are coordinated settings [more…]
For Seniors: Choose a Screen Saver for Your Laptop
Screen savers are animations that appear after your laptop has remained inactive for a time. Windows 7 comes with several screen savers you can select from and customize as desired. [more…]
For Seniors: Change the Color, Font, or Size of Windows Elements
You can modify the appearance of Windows 7 elements one by one. For example, you can change the color, font, or size of menus, windows, icons, scrollbars, and other Windows elements. [more…]
For Seniors: Improve Visibility on a Windows Laptop
If you're visually challenged, using a laptop's smaller screen is often difficult. Luckily, Windows provides tools to improve usability for those with visual disabilities, such as increasing screen contrast [more…]
For Seniors: Replace Windows Sounds with Visual Cues
Instead of alerting you to events using sounds, the hearing challenged can have Windows 7 provide visual cues. For the hearing impaired, Windows can provide a strong visual cue rather than a ringing or [more…]
For Seniors: Make Text on Your Laptop Larger
With today's high-resolution monitors, images are crisp but text is small. If you have difficulty reading text and other items on your monitor, you can make them larger. If you use an older monitor, or [more…]
For Seniors: Set Up Speech Recognition on a Laptop
If typing is challenging on your laptop, you can set up Windows for speech recognition and speak commands instead. While setting up Speech Recognition on your laptop, you train Windows to understand your [more…]
For Seniors: Make Your Laptop Keyboard Easier to Use
Laptop keyboards are often difficult to type on. Through its Ease of Access Center, Windows 7 lets you modify how you interact with your keyboard, in order to make it easier to avoid problems such as accidental [more…]
For Seniors: Display a Laptop's Onscreen Keyboard
Through its Ease of Access Center, Windows offers an onscreen keyboard you use in place of a laptop's smaller physical keyboard. Click the onscreen keyboard's [more…]
For Seniors: Adjust a Laptop's Keyboard Repeat Rates
Laptop keyboards are often difficult to type on. Windows 7 lets you modify how you interact with your keyboard, making it easier to avoid problems such as accidental or multiple keypresses. If you have [more…]
