Pithecanthropus
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I have a Vista hp6000 series laptop--yeah, I know it's ancient, but I've made it reasonably capable by quadrupling the original RAM, which was a miserly .5G. And it actually is not a 64-bit machine, but I can't find any other place to ask this at the moment. I'm hoping that whatever solutions have been found in the 64-bit world will work on a 32-bit machine too.
From the appearance of everything--desktop, text documents, pictures, icons, etc., everything appears horizontally stretched. Circles look like eggs, and squares look like rectangles--you get the idea. But when I print out a picture, the proportions are correct. When I try to update the display settings by changing the resolution settings, all the choices I see are 4:3, so all screen displays are stretched to fit the wide screen (which is about ~13x8). Hence, the vertical squashing or horizontal stretching, depending on one's point of view.
I believe the problem started when I ran Device Doctor, a freeware driver update program which, otherwise, has been a minor miracle. One possibility is that HP might have the driver I need, and I'll certainly check that out. But I wanted to ask here, too.
From the appearance of everything--desktop, text documents, pictures, icons, etc., everything appears horizontally stretched. Circles look like eggs, and squares look like rectangles--you get the idea. But when I print out a picture, the proportions are correct. When I try to update the display settings by changing the resolution settings, all the choices I see are 4:3, so all screen displays are stretched to fit the wide screen (which is about ~13x8). Hence, the vertical squashing or horizontal stretching, depending on one's point of view.
I believe the problem started when I ran Device Doctor, a freeware driver update program which, otherwise, has been a minor miracle. One possibility is that HP might have the driver I need, and I'll certainly check that out. But I wanted to ask here, too.
