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problem changing display resolution
I have a Dell laptop running Windows 98. In the display properties box,
when I can change my resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768. But instead of repainting the icons smaller and squeezing more onto a fixed expanded desktop, the icons remain the same size, and the desktop just "expands" beyond what is viewable at one time. In other words, the whole thing can't actually be viewed all at one time. To view the entire desktop, one has to "scroll" the mouse to one side or the other, toward top and bottom to "survey" the whole desktop. I'd rather all the icons shrink but be able to see the whole desktop at once, fixed in one place. I've searched around the display properties window as well as the Device Manager for some switch or box to uncheck to make this annoying characteristic go away...all to no avail. The display is given in the Display Manager as a NeoMagic MagicMedia256AV. Does anyone know how to get my computer to just expand my resolution on a fixed desktop, without putting it into this crazy mode wherein the desktop appears to slide around as you move the mouse around the displayed edges? I'd greatly appreciate the help... -Pam |
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problem changing display resolution
You have posted this message in a lot of groups where it is not relevant.
The setting that controls this feature might be a part of your display adapter properties (in Device Manager) or it might be a part of BIOS setup or it might be a separate display utility. It all depends on how your manufacturer has set up your system. Look for an option such as 'virtual desktop' - that's the name used for the option that allows the display to be larger than the physical screen and allows you to scroll that desktop back and forth across the screen. It's also possible that your machine has been designed to work like this and you can't change it. This occurs because the required procedures that would paint 1024 pixels in a row of 800 physical display positions simply wasn't provided. Just because the video card can do that resolution doesn't mean that the video display can handle it properly. Check with the system manufacturer or the system documentation whether your system is capable of supporting the display size you have selected. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (DTS) wrote in message . com... I have a Dell laptop running Windows 98. In the display properties box, when I can change my resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768. But instead of repainting the icons smaller and squeezing more onto a fixed expanded desktop, the icons remain the same size, and the desktop just "expands" beyond what is viewable at one time. In other words, the whole thing can't actually be viewed all at one time. To view the entire desktop, one has to "scroll" the mouse to one side or the other, toward top and bottom to "survey" the whole desktop. I'd rather all the icons shrink but be able to see the whole desktop at once, fixed in one place. I've searched around the display properties window as well as the Device Manager for some switch or box to uncheck to make this annoying characteristic go away...all to no avail. The display is given in the Display Manager as a NeoMagic MagicMedia256AV. Does anyone know how to get my computer to just expand my resolution on a fixed desktop, without putting it into this crazy mode wherein the desktop appears to slide around as you move the mouse around the displayed edges? I'd greatly appreciate the help... -Pam |
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Pam, you may be stuck, if the maximum "native" resolution of your laptop is
800x600, any increase beyond that size results in the 'scrolling desktop" AFAIK there is no way around it. " wrote: I have a Dell laptop running Windows 98. In the display properties box, when I can change my resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768. But instead of repainting the icons smaller and squeezing more onto a fixed expanded desktop, the icons remain the same size, and the desktop just "expands" beyond what is viewable at one time. In other words, the whole thing can't actually be viewed all at one time. To view the entire desktop, one has to "scroll" the mouse to one side or the other, toward top and bottom to "survey" the whole desktop. I'd rather all the icons shrink but be able to see the whole desktop at once, fixed in one place. I've searched around the display properties window as well as the Device Manager for some switch or box to uncheck to make this annoying characteristic go away...all to no avail. The display is given in the Display Manager as a NeoMagic MagicMedia256AV. Does anyone know how to get my computer to just expand my resolution on a fixed desktop, without putting it into this crazy mode wherein the desktop appears to slide around as you move the mouse around the displayed edges? I'd greatly appreciate the help... -Pam |
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