Simple setup makes Win8 desktop more conducive to touch screen operation

A lot of people know that Windows 8 has made a lot of optimizations for the touch screen, including the specially designed Metro interface, so I have also added a touch screen display to experience Windows 8. After some personal experience, as Microsoft has advertised, the touch operation experience under the Metro interface is quite good.

However, when I want to try to replace some simple mouse operations with touch on a traditional desktop, the problem comes: the menu options on the desktop program, the file manager's navigation panel, These objects are too small, and it is easy for one finger to point off the target and cause the next door to be selected. Maybe the text is not intuitive enough, then the picture below will give you a reference.
Touching in a desktop environment is not so convenient

This is an unscaled original image. The black dot in the picture is the approximate area touched by the small finger. It can be seen that basically one finger point down, at least covering two adjacent targets. This requires that you need to aim at it and click again when you click it. Obviously this will affect the efficiency of the operation. For notebook or desktop users, there is an external mouse (or a corresponding pointing device), so if the touch operation is inconvenient, the mouse is still a big deal. But if you happen to buy Microsoft's Surface tablet, you will find it difficult to touch on the desktop.

Still using the mouse to solve the problem? The tablet external mouse feels weird, we still use some other methods to improve the touch experience under the Windows 8 desktop environment.

First of all, we can enlarge the display items of the desktop environment. Hold the desktop blank for a while, pop up the right-click menu, select the screen resolution, then click on the “Open or Close” window to enlarge or reduce the text and other items. It is recommended to use the mouse to make it more convenient.

Change the size of all items from the default "smaller" to "medium" or "larger", depending on your screen size and resolution, or separately try it.
Modify the size of the project here

After the modification, you need to log out and log in again to make it effective. Then open the Explorer and compare it with the previous screenshots and find that each item has become larger. About two-thirds of the area of ​​finger contact. Trying to touch the operation at this size is much better than the original one, and the number of mis-selections is significantly reduced.
Displaying effects after 25% enlargement

In addition to changing the overall project size, you can also change the text size of some locations.
Changing the text size at a given location

After zooming in, the touch operation in the desktop environment is very improved, and most of the basic operations can be done without the mouse. If you are also using the touch screen to experience Windows 8, you may wish to change the system settings as described above, which will give you a better touch experience.