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| Thread ID: 102376 | 2009-08-17 10:04:00 | Laptop screen reduced in size | timmy5953 (6846) | Press F1 |
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| 801882 | 2009-08-17 10:04:00 | A friend, presently travelling thru outback Australia , has emailed me with this problem - Somehow I've managed to press a few buttons on my laptop and my screen is now reduced to 3/4 of it's size. Do you know what I do to get it back to full size? OS is Windows XP. I could take a look thru Control Panel menus, but my desktop probably has no laptop settings. My guess is that she has unwittingly altered the screen size using some shortcut keys (e.g. ALT-x or something). Is there a generic, or typically used, way of setting laptop's screen size that would be worth her trying? |
timmy5953 (6846) | ||
| 801883 | 2009-08-17 10:18:00 | Try right clicking the desktop in a blank space - Properties/Settings Tab/ Adjust resolution - sounds like it may be set to high ( Causing it to shrink). Try 1024x768. -- Keep Adjusting size to suit. Bit hard to advice on the actual size since laptop Specs were not provided - Screen size etc. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 801884 | 2009-08-17 10:19:00 | May have hit the output key Fn+F4 or something to have changed the resolution... If all else fails, do a system restore |
Blam (54) | ||
| 801885 | 2009-08-18 02:43:00 | My IBM Thinkpad has a key combination (Fn+F8) I think which allows smaller resolution (640x480) to either center in the screen or to stretch to fill. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 801886 | 2009-08-19 06:14:00 | many thanx to the 3 of you. The problem is fixed and the lady is delighted. | timmy5953 (6846) | ||
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