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 touch screen
, including the specially designed Metro interface
, so I have also made a lot of fun with Xiaobian. Experience a Windows 8 with a touch screen display. After some personal experience, as Microsoft 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.

It’s not so convenient to use touch operation in the desktop environment

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

Still using the mouse to solve the problem? The external mouse on the tablet feels weird, and we still have some other ways to improve the touch experience in 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 "large", 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 back in to make it take effect, then open the resource manager and compare it with the previous screenshot. Each item has grown a bit 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.

Enlarge the display after 25%

In addition to changing the overall project size, you can also change the text size for some locations.

Change the text size of the specified location

After zooming in, the touch operation in the desktop environment is very improved, 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.