Screen Size Mess Up!

When you've read my problem you might understand why I
can't use "search" to see if there's an answer already on
the group about this. I'm on my mother's Win 98 machine;
my own XP 'puter is 3000 miles away. This was my machine
until I moved, so I sat down to remove programs my 70-year-
old mother'll never use, and I saw that the display was
set to 800x600. No prob, right? I went into Control Panel
and slid the pointer on Settings over to 1024x768. I
changed her desktop for her, too, then clicked Apply and
restarted. But, to my great dismay, it restarted in in
640x480! I can't even get this entire message box on the
screen, so please excuse any typos; I can't see 'em! I
went back to Settings on the Display Control Panel, but
the OK and Apply buttons won't appear on the monitor, and
the window (message box, actually, I guess) can't be
resized. I know how to fix it, I just can't get to the
#$@^&! buttons. Any ideas? The computer's pretty much
useless this way. She basically only uses it for email and
games, but I still don't want to have taken even that
little bit from her. Took YEARS to get her to even touch a
computer! Thanks!

You don't need to get to the OK or Apply button.
Make the change and hit the Enter key.

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.win98.display.general, "Carolyn"
wrote:

When you've read my problem you might understand why I
can't use "search" to see if there's an answer already on
the group about this. I'm on my mother's Win 98 machine;
my own XP 'puter is 3000 miles away. This was my machine
until I moved, so I sat down to remove programs my 70-year-
old mother'll never use, and I saw that the display was
set to 800x600. No prob, right? I went into Control Panel
and slid the pointer on Settings over to 1024x768. I
changed her desktop for her, too, then clicked Apply and
restarted. But, to my great dismay, it restarted in in
640x480! I can't even get this entire message box on the
screen, so please excuse any typos; I can't see 'em! I
went back to Settings on the Display Control Panel, but
the OK and Apply buttons won't appear on the monitor, and
the window (message box, actually, I guess) can't be
resized. I know how to fix it, I just can't get to the
#$@^&! buttons. Any ideas? The computer's pretty much
useless this way. She basically only uses it for email and
games, but I still don't want to have taken even that
little bit from her. Took YEARS to get her to even touch a
computer! Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
When you've read my problem you might understand why I
can't use "search" to see if there's an answer already on
the group about this. I'm on my mother's Win 98 machine;
my own XP 'puter is 3000 miles away. This was my machine
until I moved, so I sat down to remove programs my 70-
year-
old mother'll never use, and I saw that the display was
set to 800x600. No prob, right? I went into Control Panel
and slid the pointer on Settings over to 1024x768. I
changed her desktop for her, too, then clicked Apply and
restarted. But, to my great dismay, it restarted in in
640x480! I can't even get this entire message box on the
screen, so please excuse any typos; I can't see 'em! I
went back to Settings on the Display Control Panel, but
the OK and Apply buttons won't appear on the monitor, and
the window (message box, actually, I guess) can't be
resized. I know how to fix it, I just can't get to the
#$@^&! buttons. Any ideas? The computer's pretty much
useless this way. She basically only uses it for email
and
games, but I still don't want to have taken even that
little bit from her. Took YEARS to get her to even touch
a
computer! Thanks!
.

-----Original Message-----
When you've read my problem you might understand why I
can't use "search" to see if there's an answer already on
the group about this. I'm on my mother's Win 98 machine;
my own XP 'puter is 3000 miles away. This was my machine
until I moved, so I sat down to remove programs my 70-
year-
old mother'll never use, and I saw that the display was
set to 800x600. No prob, right? I went into Control Panel
and slid the pointer on Settings over to 1024x768. I
changed her desktop for her, too, then clicked Apply and
restarted. But, to my great dismay, it restarted in in
640x480! I can't even get this entire message box on the
screen, so please excuse any typos; I can't see 'em! I
went back to Settings on the Display Control Panel, but
the OK and Apply buttons won't appear on the monitor, and
the window (message box, actually, I guess) can't be
resized. I know how to fix it, I just can't get to the
#$@^&! buttons. Any ideas? The computer's pretty much
useless this way. She basically only uses it for email
and
games, but I still don't want to have taken even that
little bit from her. Took YEARS to get her to even touch
a
computer! Thanks!
.

-----Original Message-----
When you've read my problem you might understand why I
can't use "search" to see if there's an answer already on
the group about this. I'm on my mother's Win 98 machine;
my own XP 'puter is 3000 miles away. This was my machine
until I moved, so I sat down to remove programs my 70-
year-
old mother'll never use, and I saw that the display was
set to 800x600. No prob, right? I went into Control Panel
and slid the pointer on Settings over to 1024x768. I
changed her desktop for her, too, then clicked Apply and
restarted. But, to my great dismay, it restarted in in
640x480! I can't even get this entire message box on the
screen, so please excuse any typos; I can't see 'em! I
went back to Settings on the Display Control Panel, but
the OK and Apply buttons won't appear on the monitor, and
the window (message box, actually, I guess) can't be
resized. I know how to fix it, I just can't get to the
#$@^&! buttons. Any ideas? The computer's pretty much
useless this way. She basically only uses it for email
and
games, but I still don't want to have taken even that
little bit from her. Took YEARS to get her to even touch
a
computer! Thanks!
.

-----Original Message-----
When you've read my problem you might understand why I
can't use "search" to see if there's an answer already on
the group about this. I'm on my mother's Win 98 machine;
my own XP 'puter is 3000 miles away. This was my machine
until I moved, so I sat down to remove programs my 70-
year-
old mother'll never use, and I saw that the display was
set to 800x600. No prob, right? I went into Control Panel
and slid the pointer on Settings over to 1024x768. I
changed her desktop for her, too, then clicked Apply and
restarted. But, to my great dismay, it restarted in in
640x480! I can't even get this entire message box on the
screen, so please excuse any typos; I can't see 'em! I
went back to Settings on the Display Control Panel, but
the OK and Apply buttons won't appear on the monitor, and
the window (message box, actually, I guess) can't be
resized. I know how to fix it, I just can't get to the
#$@^&! buttons. Any ideas? The computer's pretty much
useless this way. She basically only uses it for email
and
games, but I still don't want to have taken even that
little bit from her. Took YEARS to get her to even touch
a
computer! Thanks!
.

-----Original Message-----
When you've read my problem you might understand why I
can't use "search" to see if there's an answer already on
the group about this. I'm on my mother's Win 98 machine;
my own XP 'puter is 3000 miles away. This was my machine
until I moved, so I sat down to remove programs my 70-
year-
old mother'll never use, and I saw that the display was
set to 800x600. No prob, right? I went into Control Panel
and slid the pointer on Settings over to 1024x768. I
changed her desktop for her, too, then clicked Apply and
restarted. But, to my great dismay, it restarted in in
640x480! I can't even get this entire message box on the
screen, so please excuse any typos; I can't see 'em! I
went back to Settings on the Display Control Panel, but
the OK and Apply buttons won't appear on the monitor, and
the window (message box, actually, I guess) can't be
resized. I know how to fix it, I just can't get to the
#$@^&! buttons. Any ideas? The computer's pretty much
useless this way. She basically only uses it for email
and
games, but I still don't want to have taken even that
little bit from her. Took YEARS to get her to even touch
a
computer! Thanks!
.