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03-02-2008
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Vista Home Premium 32 bit
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| Computer look messed up I am not sure which forum is the correct one to post this so I jut thought this would be the best.Today when I turned on my computer the look of it had totally changed.By that I mean everthing is smaller .I mean everthing from size to desk top wallpaper size .Is this a Vista issue or did I just click something by mistake and how do I fix it? |
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03-02-2008
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Location: Texas, USA   | Re: Computer look messed up Hi ukerin, You might see if your screen resolution was increased. That will make everything smaller. Screen Resolution Shawn |
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03-02-2008
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Location: Vashon Is.  | Re: Computer look messed up hmm, sounds like your video resolution got changed somehow. right-click on the desktop (anywhere there's no icon) and choose personalize from the context menu. choose display settings and move the resolution slider to the left. you may have to play around with it a little to get the resolution you want unless you know where it should be set. keep in mind, if you have a flat panel monitor it may look really bad outside of it's 'native resolution'. EDIT: i'm too slow on the draw... Last edited by chumplet; 03-02-2008 at 12:37 PM. Reason: adding to post |
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Location: Vashon Is. | it's already to the left as far as it will go? what are the numbers directly below the slider position? (e.g. 800 by 600 pixels, 1024 by 768 pixels, etc) also, you say the desktop wallpaper doesn't fill the entire screen but can you move your mouse pointer out of the area filled by the wallpaper background? how about desktop icons, are they the same size they've always been or smaller? |
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03-02-2008
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Location: Texas, USA | Re: Computer look messed up ukerin, Are you able to manually change the desktop icons sizes to make them larger? Desktop Icon size Shawn |
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Location: Vashon Is. | Re: Computer look messed up
i just want to make sure we're talking about moving the slider to the left? it can't possibly be that the lowest resolution you can get is 1688x1050. do you have slider option to the right? | |||||||||||||||
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Location: Vashon Is. | Re: Computer look messed up
oh no, that's fine ukerin. 1680x1050 is a fairly typical MAX (and native) resolution for alot of 19"-22" wide screen flat panel lcd's. i just want to verify again that your resolution slider cannot move to the left (<---). do you have any options to the right on the slider? | |||||||||||||||
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