Paulfmco ,. Thanks for these replies I haven't had a chance to try all of them. I did try what Zander suggested, and my refresh rate is already I'm not sure I understand what the point is of lowering it. I'll try to find my manual to my monitor and see if I can increase the screen size that way, as Royalty suggested. I must admit, I'm fearful and paranoid about messing with my monitor after what happened.
It scares me. But yes, I'd like to get it restored to full screen. I just don't want to mess it up. That's especially important if you will be working under fluorescent lighting, which tends to flicker at the 60 Hz.
I would avoid using that same refresh rate on a monitor if possible. What your monitor will support will depend on what video adapter and resolution setting you have chosen.
It is generally a good idea to use the fastest refresh rate that your chosen settings can support. With that, you will always make that setting as the last one you perform. Do not be afraid to mess something up. You must raise the setting until you determine what the limit is. I run at 85 Hz. I have noticed on some systems that when I set at that rate, the screen coverage is improper and cannot be adjust out with the controls.
That pretty well defines the limit. If you are sure you are using the correct adapter for your monitor, then by all means try lowering the refresh rate. You won't wreck anything beyond what a simple reversal of the setting won't fix.
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Normally the xp window would fill the entire screen. Obviously some internal widow dimension size has been altered in the OS, but I have no idea what was changed. I have not been messing with the OS or the registry so I am at a loss.
Adjust Resolution until things are Kosher. Why did it change?? Unknown - gremlins???!!! Are you sure its not botting into Safe mode? Safe mode tends to use a lower resolution as it doens't load video card drivers instead it loads generic ones that do not cause issues. If its booting into safe mode instead of normal mode there may be a driver issue causing it.
Also can you maybe reinstall the video driver see if it works again? Are you sure it's not just setting on the monitor itself that needs to be adjusted? I think he would notice having to click on the "you are now in safe mode - press OK button" message, but maybe not. Oops, I missed that it is a laptop. Thsnks guys - having read all that safe mode no, adj buttons no is the consensus to reinstall the video driver?
Never hurts to update the drivers. If you can't adjust the display settings, and it is not in Safe Mode, then update the drivers. I know that worked for me on a couple of old Dell Lappy-toppies that i had laying around.
That would be a good step reinstall driver if you can't adjust the resolution and have it function normally. Should have mentioned that as step 2 in my post, but I didn't so I'm a putz. I'm assuming it's most likely Intel graphics. However, I want to point out that if it is nVidia graphics, based on some VERY major issues with one of the recent graphics drivers, I'd tread with caution, and make sure you don't upgrade to a problematic driver when updating.
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