"Stewart" wrote in message
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Mike, I read what you are saying but how can you explain that if I go into
properties and then settings I can choose the larger numbers of 1920 x 1080
and if I then apply this setting the taskbar drops off the bottom of the
desktop as does the toolbar etc and they can only be accessed by scrolling.

My ATI Radeon also offers 1920 X 1080, along with a lot of other very odd
combination. I recognize a few of them as being compatible with old Apple
monitors, but some of the others I've never seen before at all.

What I'm a bit amazed by is that you don't have to also scroll left/right to
get the entire task bar. I'd have expected the icon tray (lower right corner)
to be off the screen to the right. With the monitor only offereing 1280 X 1024
you should have 56 pixels below the screen and 640 off the right. Can you
actually see both the start button and the clock/icon tray on the task bar
without scrolling left/right?

The icons look to be the same size but are no longer at the edge of the
desktop but slightly in. Anything I want to view now extends beyond the
screen perimeter and scrolling is needed.

Look at it this way. The biggest "window" your monitor can "see" is 1280 X
1024. If you set the video card to 1920 X 1080 you'll be viewing a sub-set
1280 X 1024 in size. By moving the mouse to the edges, you can scroll this
window over whatever portion of that 1920 X 1080 you like, but it's still only
viewing a portion.

- Bill