If you are constantly reading large amounts of text (books, web pages, etc.) on your computer, you might want to consider rotating your wide screen into the portrait mode so you can make full use of the display.

To do this in Windows 7, except physically rotating your monitor (which is a must

), all you have to do is go to the Display Settings panel and then switch the orientation. This can become very useful if you are using two monitors: one for reading stuff the other for general usage.

It’s not the discovery of the century, but it can obviously make your life easier in certain situations.