Re: Anyone wanna help a novice?

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From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:49:50 -0500

> I believe there's a setting in the display properties that you check for
> 'full screen'. Have to dig around to find it, can't remember where it is.
I
> had a similar prob where it did that once in awhile. Once I installed XP
Pro
> on it, the issue disappeared.

You may have another set of reasons for this happening Ace
(hardware is funny that way) but in my experience this is because
many laptops don't support "full screen" in all resolutions.

Rather than "expand" the pixels to fit, many of them will just show
800x600 in 4/5ths the screen. I know it defeats the whole purpose
of changing resolutions but this is not uncommon.

Another thing that interferes is not having the right driver, and the
Windows won't go beyond 800x600 since it doesn't have the
correct hardware driver for the machine.

(I have a lot of Dells too.) 

-- 
Herb Martin
"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
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> In news:uXo1wlEcEHA.3824@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl,
> Herb Martin <news@LearnQuick.com> asked for help and I offered my
> suggestions below:
> > Some of the laptops will only go "full screen" if you have
> > one or both of the following:
> >
> >     1) matching screen resolution (higher may even be better)
> >     2) correct driver (try Dell's site)
> >
> > Also, the Dell folks are nice about answering submitted
> > requests (from the web site) even if you didn't buy it new.
> >
> > Also, there may be a BIOS setting that is interfering but this
> > is less common.
>
> I believe there's a setting in the display properties that you check for
> 'full screen'. Have to dig around to find it, can't remember where it is.
I
> had a similar prob where it did that once in awhile. Once I installed XP
Pro
> on it, the issue disappeared.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Ace
>
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> so all can benefit.
>
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>
> Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCSE+I, MCT, MVP
> Microsoft Windows MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
>
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