screen resolution

i hope i am asking the right question.... on my laptop, i can plugin my lcd tv and dual screen. i setup a video game to load on screen 2 (the lcd tv) and the desktop stays on screen 1. when i went to play the game on screen 2, and actively used the mouse on screen 1, i lost control of the...

I currently have my video card also connecting to my receiver which connects to my flat screen. I extend my displays and normally I use it just for sound. Occasionally I use it for the picture as well... When extended displays is disabled I can drag windows to left and right and duel split...

Hi. My brother gave me his computer and it has windows 7 installed. The problem is that the screen resolution is 1024 x 768 and it doesn't look good at all, the fonts and icons are too big and it looks disproportionate. I checked the resolution configuration screen and seems to be that the...

Context I work for a lab at a university. We reimage 30 Windows 7 machines each semester. We use HP LP1965 widescreen monitors and Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 video cards. These monitors can rotate to profile, which is the way they are in the lab. Each machine has two monitors. We use WAIK...

I am attempting to dock an Acer Aspire 5723Z laptop running Windows 7 64-bit into the Belkin Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Dockstation Model # FSU216 which the supplier provided with the laptop as being compatible. When the devices are connected, the (Edge10 GB19XX) monitor display switches off when I...

Hi I am totally new to the forum and Windows 7 as of yesterday. My problem is I had an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC (im not quite sure the model number) and I used an external HP monitor with it when i ran vista. After i used an update disc to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate my external...

I create my own website. I had XP and Explorer 8. My website pages looked fine - all aligned. I just got win 7 and Exp 8. Suddenly sections of text on some of my web pages are off centre - when viewing on line. My new laptop has same screen size so that can't be it. Most of the pages are OK...

Hi, I am new to Windows 7 and am having issues with the toolbar blocking the bottom of websites where you need to click on the 'next' or 'continue' buttons, its like the web page is too big for my screen...also when playing Football Manager the screen blocks the botton inch of screen... Is...

Hello, I'm having a problem installing win7 on my computer, this problem started after Ive added a new hard drive to my computer, I've been looking all over the net and couldn't find a solution, this is why I'm asking you for it. When trying to install Win7, I'm booting from my disc, then the...

i have a sony LAPTOP with 512 mb ati raedon HD graphic card and 1366 X 768 screen resolution,but my pc games such as ea sports cricket 07,08,09 as well as wwe raw dont work on full screen but only get displayed on 75% of the screen the rest part is left black.i tried to change the...

Hello, I've recently switched from Windows Vista to Windows 7 x64. I use the word switched instead of upgraded because I formatted my old drive instead of installing over Vista. I have been using two screens for forever now, both LG Flatron L1750HQ, both are digital and have served me well. My...

I use a small computer with a 10.1" diagonal screen. Many applications like Acrobat (for the Properties window), Quicken (for several windows like Schedule Bill or Deposits) and some Quicktime settings windows have fixed window sizes that extend off the top and bottom of screen. Win7 does not...

Guys, I've been having some extremely weird problems with my Windows 7 Home Premium PC. It's brand new, bought in the beginning of the year. There's 4 problems. Main one comes first: Today, while I was watching You Tube videos, got a blue screen twice. But not the 'blue screen of death'...

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with monitor Dell 2407WFP-HC I usually set my Screen Resolution to highest @ 1920 x 1200 (recommended). It has no problem at all (like in the picture below). i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii139/hangingout_album/space_no.jpg But sometime I wanted to set my...

In Xp and Vista it was easy to retrieve the display device ID (I.E. \\.\Display1, \\.\Display2, etc). The returned deviced ID's matched the display numbers as depicted on screens with the "identify" button....where a big '1' and '2' would appear on the monitors if clicked. In Windows 7, this...

Hi there, I recently upgraded my Windows 7 Ultimate RC to Windows 7 Ultimate full version. However, after I finished the installation, I can't get my screen resolution to go higher than 1024 x 768. However, on the RC, I had my resolution at 1280 x 800, which is what I'm used to, and I can not...

Hello all. I have two monitors, one is a HD and one is regular flat screen one. My main monitor is perfectly fine(HD monitor). But my 2nd screen is not working right. Basicly it's fine but the color is messed up. The color is all blured to the right and is green. If i take a screen shot of the...

So I built my first custom computer and installed 7, 64 Bit. I'm running a Radeon 5770 graphics card on am Alienware Monitor, downloaded the driver, set it to the recommended resolution (1920x1080) and the desktop is not fitting to the screen. I can set it to a few other resolutions to make it...

Hi, I only have one monitor, a 1600x1050 Acer X223W. I'm having an issue where, whenever I go into "adjust screen resolution", and it has automatically set itself to: 1|2. Multiple Monitors 1600x1050 Landscape Duplicate these displays I get no other options as far as the first one goes, but...

Hey guys, I just upgraded from XP Media Center Edition to windows 7 Professional and now my screen resolution is all messed up, before I could take it up to like 1600x1200, now Windows 7 only allows me to go up to 1280x1024 and everything looks all scretched out...Please help! Thanks! -Matt