I need more desctop space so I've connected a Dell 1920x1080 monitor to my Vaio laptop to run as dual monitor together with the inbuilt 1280x800 screen. This works very well as a continuation of my desktop apart from a big problem with resolution:
In Vista's Display Setting I am given a choice of the following resolutions for the second monitor:
1280 x 800
1280 x1024
1360 x 768
1680 x 1059
(plus many more smaller ones).
None of these are the same as the monitor size (which is 1920x1080), so when I select, say, 1680x1059 (the highest) from Vista's choice the picture spreads these 1680x1059 pixels evenly out over the whole monitor screen which has approx. 20% more pixels and is not even the same format. The result is a hopelessly blurred picture which is also strecthed out (from ratio 8:5 to 16:9). Can you imagine? It is impossible to do any graphic work when circles are oval shaped, square shapes look rectangular and you are not quite sure on which where the lines are.
How can I get the same perfect resolution on the big screen as on the laptop screen?
In Vista's Display Setting I am given a choice of the following resolutions for the second monitor:
1280 x 800
1280 x1024
1360 x 768
1680 x 1059
(plus many more smaller ones).
None of these are the same as the monitor size (which is 1920x1080), so when I select, say, 1680x1059 (the highest) from Vista's choice the picture spreads these 1680x1059 pixels evenly out over the whole monitor screen which has approx. 20% more pixels and is not even the same format. The result is a hopelessly blurred picture which is also strecthed out (from ratio 8:5 to 16:9). Can you imagine? It is impossible to do any graphic work when circles are oval shaped, square shapes look rectangular and you are not quite sure on which where the lines are.
How can I get the same perfect resolution on the big screen as on the laptop screen?