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WIDE SCREEN MONITOR

Hi All ...I have swoped my square monitor for a wide screen monitor and the display is squashed or stretched.....story so far
1. checked the monitor ...thats fine
2. down loaded the monitor driver and installed as default [ reports working fine ]
3. installed the latest graphics card update
4. alterd the display slider for adjustment but this only makes the desktop icons [ inside a frame ] smaller or larger...the wallpaper stays the same size and distorted ....IM beginning to think its the graphics card ...what do you think? ....regards Stevie P

  • stevie P Mar 01, 2008

    Hi Rafique, thanks for your help....I have adjusted slider [ various ] the pixels. The icons becme small / larger ... the smaller the icons the more space at the bottom of the screne but the wall paper stays the same size and [distorted ] ikwe the icons ?

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Hi , Please Adjust screen resolution according to specification of your monitor and your display card.

If nothing works Please update me.

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Hi,
Better to reinstall windows(Operating System) and drivers.


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