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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Adjustments

Most adjustments to the monitor take place at installation, but for now, let’s

just make sure you know what they are and where they are located. Clearly,

all monitors have an On/Off button or switch. Also, see if you can locate the

Brightness and Contrast buttons. Beyond that, most monitors (at least the

only ones you should buy) have an onscreen display (OSD) menu, enabling a

number of adjustments. Every monitor maker provides a different way to

access these menus, but they all provide two main functions: physical screen

adjustment (bigger, smaller, move to the left, right, up, down, and others) and

color adjustment. The color adjustment enables you to adjust the red, green,

and blue levels to provide the best color tones. All these settings are a matter

of personal taste. Make sure the person who will use the computer

understands how to adjust these settings (see Figure 17-30).

Figure 17-30 Typical OSD menu controls

VESA Mounts

Almost every monitor these days has a standardized bracket option for

mounting the monitor on the wall or on a special stand called a VESA mount.

Figure 17-31 shows the bracket option on a monitor. Figure 17-32 shows a

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