display settings

When I go to personalization I have 18 themes showing but they are all greyed out and do not work. Any help would be appreciated. Regards Bob

I changed the text size from default to 250%.the change happened on the first page of a website but when you went to a second or third page of that website the text was back to the default size which was smaller.why doesn't the change happen on the 2 or 3 page?i did not have this problem with...

I cannot get "Active Desktop Calendar" to play nicely with multiple monitor apps when dual monitors are spanned by a single wallpaper. This appears to be a problem with all the desktop calendar apps that I can find. I am now trying to use the Win7 Display Settings to achieve this end. So far...

I have a flat screen monitor that is connected via the DVI port. I also have an HDTV, where my computer connects to it via an HDMI cable. I notice they can't work simultaneously. is there a software solution to be able to switch between the 2, perhaps by disabling something? thanks

Hi I just purchased a new laptop and the screen resolution is only 1280x600 so snap screen is disabled. What is a way to make it be enabled? there is always a way but i cant figure it out

for some reason my address bar now goes from the left all the way to the right of the screen, and thus the refesh/stop/search icons are all the way on the right. up until then, the address bar only spanned about half way across. u changed no display settings. any idea what i cold have done...

hi, All; I have MS Office 2010 Home Edition. Is there a way to make 2 different Excel docs show up on 2 different monitors at the same time (one on each, of course)? (I have a PC and 2 displays total.) Thanks!

Hi All, It would appear that I have a screen issue that is stopping me from playing Microsoft Flight Simulator Have a look at the attached pic) Link Removed I have a Radeon HD6950 card with one monitor although from the picture it would appear that Windows think I have two monitors.. I have...

I have deleted all of the icons from my default (new machine) start screen and am now attempting to create a new screen. My problem is that I can't seem to place more than 2 icons wide in a group. Once I've filled the 2 column group from top to bottom the next icon I place on the screen...

Hi everyone! Today I have been experiencing some problems with my computer with trying to turn it on and I am noticing 3 things that are unusual First of all, I am noticing that when it turns on, there is no where for me to log-in. The blue background shows up like normal and I have a cursor to...

Hi all. I have a second monitor in extend displays mode. When I change the taskbar option in Taskbar Properties "Taskbar buttons" to "Combine when taskbar is full" the second monitor still combines the buttons. Is this a bug or something wrong with my installation? I've included a screenshot...

I have a game called Rage and when I play it, it goes to my 2nd monitor and I can't pull it back because in a game your lock in to that monitor. Any suggestions on how to get this game to play on my main monitor?

I had Intel HD 3000 graphics but when I reformatted my computer I now have, Intel Sandybridge Mobile Graphics Chip set and my adapter type is: Standard VGA Graphics Adapter also my resolution now is 1024x768. It used to be 1280x1024. What happened? When I try updating the driver it says its...

When I go into Power options in the control panel it says "Chage plan settings" so I turn off my display after one hour and that's OK. Then it says "Put the computer to sleep" from 1 minute to 5 hours so what does that mean?

Card: GeForce 8400 GS, Dual Monitor Solution 59 pin socket (DMS-59) to 2 VGA adapter cable (tried two of these cables) Driver: 306.97 October 2012 - latest driver and clean reset install Nvidia driver 285.62 from Oct 2011 is the latest driver to dual display. And all previous drivers back to...

Hello . Sorry for my English , the translation is made the machine . I have win 7 and try to get the windows 8 to test the Oracle VM VirtualBox. I can not make it. Something goes wrong and I get (see below) ... VirtualBox – Warning: The virtual machine execution may run into an error condition...

I am using Win7 64 bit. Randomly a mouse pointer appears that has a hand super imposed over a box that has a up down arrow on the right side. It automatically scrolls where ever I place the pointer over an object on the desktop. I cannot make it disappear. Rebooting the PC will return the...

Win7 has a about 50-75 problems, yet instead of MS spending time fixing it, they made an even worse OS (win8). MS trolling us? ....Why is it so hard for win7 to open up applications in the active window? Its the window im using, its the window that launched the app, yet MS feels the need to...

I lost my windows opening maximized. Now it only opens minimaized and I have to enlarge it. What did I change to cause this? I read post from a few years back and still can get the window to open maximized. Thanks

Users may experience long delays while attempting to set Dual or TriDisplay configurations on systems running two, three, or more monitors. Link Removed