JW

A fixed pixel display only has one native resolution just like an electric
light sign on the freeway. If you select a resolution other than the native
resolution the graphics card just scales the image of to fit the native
resolution by adding pixels(up) or deleting pixels (down scaling).
From your problem description it appears that your native resolution is
800x600 and that the MS supplied WDDM drivers in Vista for your card were or
still are doing a poor job of downscaling the 1024x768 image.
After you downloaded latest Vista drivers from the Intel drivers and you go
into device manager does it show the Intel drivers instead of the MS WDDM
drivers. If not although they are installed it appears that Vista has not
started using them.

"Praveen" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for replying...
>
> Q1: native resolution supported by my Laptop (Acer Travelmate 4052NLCI) is
> 1024x786 and 800x600
> Q2: Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller (Microsoft
> Corporation - XDDM) and 64MB Shared Memory
> Q3: I had run Windows Update, and i have downloaded, and installed latest
> INTEL driver for the video card without any luck.
> Q4: Before VISTA, i had Windows XP Professional and it was running fine
> under 1024x768 resolution.
>
> If you require any more details, please let me know the same
>
> Regards,
> Praveen
>
> "JW" <nospam@no.spam> wrote in message
> news:eLgbNDdEHHA.4404@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> It would be easier to help you if we knew:
>> 1. What is the native resolution of your Laptop screen.
>> 2, What your laptops video card/chip is and how much on board memory it
>> has.
>> 3. If you have run Winupdate with your RTM release since I understand
>> that there are 11,000 drivers available with it in addition to the
>> 19,000 that are contained in the acutal RTM release.
>> 4. Prior to upgrading to VISTA Ultimate RTM did you have any problem
>> running 1024x768 on your laptop and if not what OS was it running?
>>
>> "Praveen" <praveenreddy_sofwiz(no-spam)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:7069EB16-6CC4-4A6F-9392-397B6E4E1EEA@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Windows Vista Ultimate (Final release - MSDN)
>>>
>>> Windows vista set to 800x600 resolution works fine. However, when i try
>>> setting the same to 1024x768 resolution my screen stretches vertically,
>>> and i cannot see start menu/taskbar?
>>>
>>> Any help will be appreciated.
>>>
>>> I have a latest Acer Travelmate 4052NLCI Laptop with 40GB HDD, and 768MB
>>> RAM
>>>
>>> Thanks,and Regards,
>>> Praveen
>>
>>
>