Anthony,

Try this it should work, with your cursor in the top half of the screen
right click mouse, a drop down list will appear, at the bottom will be
properties, click on this if you can or use cursor keys to scroll down list,
this will bring up your display properties,  then click on settings, if you
find that you cant use your mouse to alter the screen resolution because it
wont go down that far, try and use the tab key this should allow you to move
around the settings page, once on resolution press enter and you will get a
drop down with all the different settings, scroll down or up to the one you
want and press enter. the hard part will be to press apply and ok, use the
cursor keys and enter.

best of luck

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 6:58 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] windows screen too highly magnified


This is really strange. On a WIN98 backup computer that I occasionally use,
I experienced a monitor image problem that I've never encountered before.

After I booted up the computer normally, the Win98 screen came up normally
(in 1024 x 768 mode). No problem. Oddly though, after I looked back at the
screen I saw that the image that filled the screen was a highly magnified
portion of the original screen, i.e., about a 2-inch square portion of the
original screen now filled the whole monitor screen. It was as if the
Microsoft Magnifier was turned on, but it wasn't (I checked -- I've never
used that utility). The mouse cursor (very large) still worked, but wouldn't
scroll lower than halfway down the screen, meaning I couldn't use it to
access the control panel to check or change the resolution setting.

I'm stuck. I tried using keyboard scrolling tricks to move around to get to
the control panel monitor settings but no luck. I tried reloading windows
twice, but the screen always comes up in the magnified mode.

Anyone have any ideas?

Anthony Smith

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