Joyce wrote:
><<I bought a new 18.5" widescreen flat panel monitor and just hooked it up 
>a little while ago.  Now everything, including pictures and my "wallpaper" 
>is distorted,>>

>Right click desktop, click Properties, then Settings, and adjust screen 
>resolution with the slider. You may need some trial and error till you get 
>it as you want. The handbook for your monitor should tell you what is its 
>"native" resolution, so try that for starters, but you don't have to stick 
>with it if you don't like it. Often on maximum resolution everything is so 
>tiny it's hard to read.  Depends how much you want to cram in.


Click OK to see how each one looks, and Apply when you find the setting you 
finally decide on.

You can then fine-tune the size and style of fonts, icons, titlebars and so 
on by again going into Desktop Properties, but this time click the 
"Appearance" tab, then Advanced, then use the scroll arrow in the "item" 
box. There's a wealth of appearance settings in there you can play around 
with on a rainy day.

Just a little trap for the unwary: (at least in XP, dunno about Vista), to 
set the size and style of fonts in general windows, you need to click on 
the item "icon". It's the last place in the world where you'd expect to 
find font settings, but there you are. Microsoft don't want to make things 
too easy for us.

Don Penlington


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