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This panel, a relatively recent addition to Settings, offers six tabs’ worth of

controls pertaining to PC gaming. Details are on Figure 8-10.

Ease of Access

Windows offers all kinds of tools to make computing easier if you have
trouble seeing or hearing.

Display

Everything you need to see better:

Make text bigger enlarges the text on the screen—everywhere it

appears—but not images or controls.

Make everything bigger is a duplicate of the drop-down menu
described on Figure 4-9.

Change the size of apps and text on other displays is handy if
you’ve connected a second screen or a projector. It lets you scale

the text and graphics up or down on each screen independently.

Change the size and color of your cursor and mouse pointer

opens the “Cursor & pointer size” described in the next section.

Change brightness automatically or use night light opens the

options described on “Turn Off the Tiles in the Start Menu”.

Show animations in Windows. Windows 10 spices things up by
displaying animations here and there. When you hit the button,

for example, the Start menu seems to slide into place, with its tiles
sliding in a microsecond later. This switch eliminates them, and the

time they take.

Show transparency in Windows. The hints of translucence (for

example, in the background of the Start menu and Settings panels)