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brendu

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Apr 23, 2009
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hey guys, i know this isnt a windows forum really but this is where i get my answers and im hoping you all can help me out.

so im at work and one of the computers (an old dell laptop) wont allow me to change the display resolution. It will change to any of the options but rather than actually adjusting the resolution, it is just resizing the visible area to a smaller box within the monitor so i have alot of black space around the usable desktop. The actual size of the text and everything is no different so its not really changing the resolution at all, its basacally making the computer useless with a 7 in viewable screen when i try to go to 1024x768...

oh and its using windows xp... thanks for any help guys
 
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