Simple setting makes Win8 desktop more beneficial to touch-screen operation

A lot of people know that Windows 8 has a lot of optimizations for touch screens, including a specially designed Metro interface, so I've got a buzz to add a touch screen monitor to experience Windows 8. After some hands-on experience, as Microsoft has advertised, the touch operation experience in the Metro interface is pretty good.

However, when I want to try to use touch to replace some simple mouse operation in the traditional desktop, the problem is: the menu options on the desktop program, File Manager navigation panel, these objects are small, a finger point up very easy to deviate from the target led to select the next door. Perhaps the light is not intuitive enough, so the following picture will give you a reference.

Touch-less convenient in desktop environments

This is the original image that is not scaled, and the black dots in the figure are the approximate area of the small knitting finger touching. You can see that basically one finger goes down, at least it will cover up to 2 adjacent targets. This requires that the point of choice when the need to aim well and then press, obviously this will affect operational efficiency. For notebook or desktop users, there is an external mouse (or the corresponding pointing device), so touch operation if not convenient, the big deal is still with the mouse. But if you just buy Microsoft's Surface tablet, you'll find it inconvenient to touch the desktop.

Still use the mouse to solve the problem? Flat-panel mouse feel weird, we still have some other ways to improve the Windows 8 Desktop Environment Touch experience bar.

First, we can enlarge the display items of the desktop environment. Hold a moment in the desktop space, pop the right-click menu, select the screen resolution, and then click "Enlarge or shrink text and other items" in the open window; It is recommended that you use the mouse to do more convenient.

Change the size of all items from the default "smaller" to "medium" or "large", depending on your screen size and resolution, or you can try each.

Modify the size of the item here

After the modification, you need to log out and log back in to take effect, and then open the Explorer to see, compared to the previous screenshot, each item has become larger, about two-thirds of the contact area of the finger. This size to try the touch operation, than the original to improve a lot, the number of false selection significantly reduced.

Enlarge the display effect after 25%

In addition to changing the overall project size, you can change the size of the text in some places.

Change the text size at the specified location

After amplification, the use of touch control in the desktop environment is well improved, most of the basic operation can no longer use the mouse to complete. If you are also using touch screen to experience Windows 8, you may wish to change the system settings as described above to give you a better touch experience.