Greetings Paul, et al.--
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Burgess <[log in to unmask]>


>I have a colleague who is running W98 who has a problem with
display
>settings.
>
>Her PC is set to 640 x 480 and only 16 colours. The problem is
that the
>dialogue box is too big to display the OK button at the bottom
and it cannot
>be resized. This means that I can change the properties in the
relevant
>places but cannot save them.
>
>Does anyone know of another way to do this ?

Using standard Windows key strokes, you can move the dialog box
to a position where you can click the OK button. HIt alt+space
bar to activate the Window controls, then 'm' for move. Use the
cursor arrows to move the dialog box up until you can see the OK
button and you should be able to save your changes.

>Also I have on my PC 'True Colour 24 bit' whereas the best she
has is 'High Colour >16 bit', which automatically reverts the
resolution back to 640 x 480.
>


This probably means she has sufficient memory on her video card
(or system if it's integrated on the MB) to run higher display
resolutions only if the color depth is 16 bit.  It's one of the
video trade-offs with borderline memory.  I suspect she only has
2 MB or less of video memory.  I have a machine at work with 4 MB
(what I would consider "entry level" nowadays) which will--like
yours--run True Color 24 bit at 800 X 600, but I doubt that's the
case at 1024 X 768.  Good luck and hope this helped.


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