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| 279675 | 2004-10-09 23:10:00 | A frustrating situation has arisin with a relative's computer; the resolution is set to 640x480 and I cannot change this because there's not enough screen space! The tabs on the display utilities box can't be changed as they are out of the screen area. I need a simple command to run to change the resolution, I'm sure there are other ways to solve this, but coming from a BSD environment I'm at a loss for ideas. Cheers, Ben |
Caesius (3758) | ||
| 279676 | 2004-10-09 23:14:00 | Are you able to move the resolution slider to a higher resolution setting? If so, then just press Enter afterwards to apply. | tommy (2826) | ||
| 279677 | 2004-10-09 23:22:00 | Can you use the tab and arrow keys to try and select the correct tab. | Davesdad (923) | ||
| 279678 | 2004-10-09 23:31:00 | >I need a simple command to run to change the resolution You are showing your BSD root's ... this is Windows remember with no .conf to hack :p Can you grab the title bar of the dialog box and move it over so that you can access the setting buttons/slider? If nothing else works that has been suggested so far, you might want to see whether you can access the Hardware Manager and remove the monitor so that Windows will re-detect it upon bootup and the default settings will hopefully be more user friendly? Even removing the video drivers might help so that Windows is forced to use VGA which *should* have a higher resolution than what you are currently stuck on. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 279679 | 2004-10-09 23:52:00 | There are also fairly small programs that can be downloaded to run from the system tray, eg. www.dougknox.com www.pcwdld.com Apparently it can also be done in Delphi, www.delphifaq.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 279680 | 2004-10-10 08:40:00 | Jen C: If only Windows were so simple! Thanks for all your help, I think the 'hitting the enter button' idea will work, why did I not think of that myself? Oh well, time to impress the relatives. |
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