display settings

I have recently purchased an Acer Veriton X275 with Windows 7 Professional and I am experiencing a nuisance issue. The screen background changes from near white to grey either, after a time lapse or on depression of keyboard key. This can be temporarily rectified by switching the monitor off...

I've discovered how to increase the font size used for desktop icons, titlebars, menus etc via the advanced display preferences under Win7, but Outlook still uses a teensy font to render the names of my folders in the folders & favourites panels. Does anyone know how to increase the fonts...

I have an Acer TM8572G with Nvidia screen manager and is using an external LG W2443T monitor as primary monitor on an extended screen setup. The monitor is attached via ordinary VGA socket to the laptop. It has happened a few times that the LG monitor scales itself to about 15% wider than the...

Well this is my problem, i connected my pc to the tv and duplicate the screens, but on the tv the picture is black-white colour.How to make it colourful where in the options i must go.Please help me. :)

I've been running windows 7 on my laptop (Dell XPS 1530) for about 6 months and its been working well. Today I used my computer and it was fine, came back a couple hours and turned it on and nothing is appearing on the screen The backlight is working and i can tell the screen is turning on...

Looking for some help. Sorry if this is in the wrong place, just registered to do this. Trying to get my computer to let me use my second monitor. I've updated my drivers and restarted, used DriverFinder and updated from there to. Using: Win7 Home 64bit My tower is HPE-500y HP Pav Elite 2 aoc...

I connected an external monitor (23inch HP) to my Dell Inspiron Mini, opened the Control Panel and can detect this external monitor. The desktop is duplicated on both the Mini and HP monitor. I was hoping to get the main desktop on the Mini, and have the external monitor as "extra real...

I thought I read that this video card can push up to 4 monitors, my computer sees all three monitors but when I try to enable all three at once it says "Unable to save display settings".

Hello I have a new laptop with Windows 7 installed, but I am not enjoying using it at all, as everything is huge! I don't just mean the text, the icons and all graphics are effected, and tweaking hasn't helped at all. (reducing the text size is easy) I have to scroll so much to view a...

I can't seem to play DVD's using Windows Media player. I get this "Windows Media Player cannot play DVD video. You might need to adjust your Windows display settings. Open display settings in Control Panel, and then try lowering your screen resolution and color quality settings." I thought maybe...

Hi, I have a dual monitor setup with one of the monitors being a 9 inch usb display. I installed new graphic drivers for the display yesterday and noticed last night that videos that are shown in my main monitor now appear green/blue. If I drag the movie to my usb monitor the colors look fine...

Hi there everyone I just bought a Mac Pro yesterday and have installed a Windows 7 partition on it. I have a dual monitor set up, both monitors being LG Flatron Full HD monitors (21.5 inch), connected via 2 mini-display port to HDMI cables. The problem I have (as stated in the title) is that...

[Solved] Two monitors with different heights weird cursor reaction When I shoot my mouse into the red zone (in an attempt to close a maximized window) the mouse cursor keeps traveling and ends up in that yellow area on the second monitor. It's like the cursor acts as if there is no gap in...

I have two 4:3 monitors side by side. Both of them are set to 1280x1024. My desktop is extended across both. I downloaded a 2560x1024 image and set it as my background. I went into personalization/etc. and set it to 'Tile' as Google results repeatedly said I should. No matter what I do...

On my dual monitor (Dell), the colour is off. How can I make them the correct colour? One is darker then the other, the settings are the same. I'm using ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series graphics card and both monitors are ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series. Thanks.

Hello, I am using dual monitor software Ultramon and it's working fine with all the folders and software. But when I try to see video by using windows media player or VLC player, the video doesn't fit in dual monitor properly. The video shows in the middle of the two monitors and both monitors...

I use a laptop for work but I have 3 monitors that I use and I don't use the laptop screen. All monitors are identical and set to the same resolution. My 3rd monitor doesn't line up properly; when I scroll over to it the mouse jumps below where it was on the previous screen. When I go into...

Hello, Is there a way to make Windows 7 text larger without skewing the size of my other programs? I would like to go higher with my DPI, say 175% to make my text bigger when I am reading articles online. However, when I go this high, it grows all the prompt boxes in other programs such as...

I have Win7 x64 setup with dual monitors. I want the monitor on the left to be my primary monitor, and the one on the right to be secondary. When I start the computer, Win7 wants the monitor on the right to be the primary. I've tried swapping the connection on the video card, but it seems...

How can I change the current background image for the welcome screen? Which requirements exist for this image? Must it be in *.BMP format or can it *.png or *.jpg as well? Must it be exactly the site of the screen or is it (if necssary) stretched/shrinked? Peter