I have a wide screen Dell 21'' flatscreen lcd monitor....all my screens are stretched and photos do not look right.

Right click on desktop and click screen resolution. Then select the recommended resolution for your monitor and click apply then OK. This sholud solve your problem.

Your screen's ratio is oriented to playing wide screen formatted movies. Set your screen resolution to a ratio that's more or less 2 to 1 and you'll have a more realistic depiction of people on photos.

Sometimes this happens when the LCD Power Inverter is going bad. This can also happen if for some reason the LCD cable is loose. Do you have access to an external monitor. That is one way to test the laptop to make sure the Video card on the motherboard is good.

Now reason it shouldn't. I have a 64mb agp card and I have a 22 inch flatscreen lcd monitor. The picture is perfect at 1680 x 1050.

Hope this helps

It sounds like you have the resolution set wrong. Typical monitors are setup with a 4:3 aspect ratio. With the widescreen monitors, you have to get a resolution that will support the 16:9 I purchased a dell monitor a while back that was the same way, and I just went in and made sure I had it set for the 16:9 aspect ratio.

Right click on the desktop, go to Personalize(Vista) or Options, and then system tab, and slide the bar along the resolution ruler to the correct size. Play with them a little too, to make sure it fits you best. Some of the higher resolutions will show more screen space, but will have smaller text.

What operating system are you using?

your system display settings are set to a wide screen setting on desk top right click then properties, right had tab display then set the screen size to a square shape like 1024 x 768.

Right click the desktop - select graphic properties - you should have the option to stretch to fit or something like that. This could also be that your resolution doesnt match your monitor. usual wide screen monitor defaults are 1280/1024 or 1400/1068.. have a mess around and alter these - see which one fits.

wow maybe you should give dell a holler

i had the same problem with my new widescreen monitor... turns out the best setting (at least, for my specific monitor) was 1440 by 900 pixels. at this setting the desktop still stretches itself to fill the entire screen, but everything else is completely unstretched. (to adjust the screen resolution, right click anywhere on the desktop, then go to properties, then settings.)