Re: change screen size
- From: "Twayne" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:02:08 -0500
In news:hh5sh3$1oj$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
VanguardLH <V@xxxxxxxxx> typed:
Microsoft Communities wrote:
I need to change my screen size and changing the resolution does not
do it enough. It is at the lowest setting and the desktop is still
off the screen. It is very large.
How can I change the size to fit the screen.
And what happened when you used the sizing control on the monitor
itself?
Seems like I responded to this already but I don't see my response here. So:
To make the contents on the screen smaller, you have to INCREASE your screen resolution. It appears you've been going in the wrong direction; the more you decrease the screen resolution, the larger the screen content will get.
If it's a case of just being a "little" larger than the screen, then your monitor and/or video settings can probably adjust for that. But it sounds like the screen contents are a lot larger than you can see. Therefore, increase your monitor/screen resolution.
Very, very over-simplified and with made-up numbers:
To understand this better, say your screen is 900 pixels wide. Screen content that is 900 pixels wide will fit on it fine. But if you change your screen to a lower resolution, say 450 pixels wide, now the content is twice as wide as your screen can display and you only see part of the picture.
If you change the screen resolution to say 1800 pixels wide, now the 900 pixel wide content only takes up half the screen real estate. Thus, increasing the screen resolution makes things get smaller looking.
The screen content is constant and doesn't change. But the amount of the screen content that can be displayed is controllable by you, namely increasing the screen resolution to get everything back on the screen.
It might be irritating to think in "pixels", the smallest amount of data a screen can show, but unfortunately there is NO constant relationship between pixels and inches or cm. Everyone's computer can and often is different. Depending on the screen resolution, an image may show up as 2 inches wide here, 12 inches wide on yours machine, 8 inches wide on another, and so on. It's the method of display, namely resolution and the size of one pixel that determines the size you actually see.
Hope that makes a little sense<g>. Try increasing your screen resolution by 2 or 3 steps (higher numbers in the 800 x 600, etc.) until you find the right one. When you first turn on your monitor, it might even give you a preferred screen resolution for a few seconds.
HTH,
Twayne
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