As I see it, you were quoting starbuck, who was initially a Win95 MVP IIRC.
His advice, even in more modern times, reflects his roots in the older
systems.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
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"PCR" wrote in message
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"98 rules" wrote in message
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| Really, you should need nothing
| higher than "High Color (16 bit)", for speed/resource considerations.
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| If you move the Screen Area slider to 1024x768 there, be sure to click
| the Advanced button, & select Large fonts.
|
| respectfully disagree, but only through 3 years of experience with my
| current set-up.
| mine is set to "True Color" (32 bit) (no problems with speed/resourse.)
| slider is set to 1024x768 (agreed) but Advanced button yields small
fonts..
| have had no probs and visibility is fine.
|
| guess gist is, diff' strokes fer diff' folks
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| 98

That's the 2nd complaint I've had about that line. I guess it must vary
per
video adapter &/or monitor what happens when you go to small fonts at
1024x768.
Also, some adapter/monitor software may better handle the load of "True
Color"
(32 bit). But I do know with a Trident Blade 3D/MVP4 (63) video adapter &
my
Compaq supersized MV720 monitor (now dead), it was impossible to read the
START
menus & Desktop at that setting! The font & icons were way too tiny!

Nevertheless, I'll see whether I can modify the language for that line a
little
next time I post it, as you & the other one add up to two now. OK, thanks.