Why are laptop computers all going to widescreen displays?
475360
Movies, Media, Marketing...These are all reasons that they are going to the widescreen format with personal laptops.  IE since the big flood of HDTV and HD plasma's and so on...\n\nI would'nt stress to hard just yet, Full screen is not dead (YET).  There are plenty of sites to get a good 'ol full screen laptop.\n\nHave a great day.
714786
Try right clicking on ur desktop, \n\nselect:\n\ndisplay modes \n\ntrue colour \n\n1024X768\n\nIt depends on ur PC. This applies to a 15inch monitor. It will be different on other monitors.\n\nIf thats not the case, then your laptop is in safemode, which you can easily convert back into normal mode, by restarting and select F8 or F10.
533490
This is one of those fuzzy things, like what is a "big screen" TV. Usually you think of a laptop as larger than a notebook. Usually a notebook has a smaller screen and fits better on a tray table of an airplane. But a big laptop with a 17" wide screen and a big wide keyboard would rarely be called a notebook.\n\nBut, like I say, where that line is depends on your opinion. One person's laptop may be another person's notebook. Plus, as the other posters demonstrate, many people don't draw a distinction anymore.
539415
Laptops usually have an output for connecting a monitor. When you use that output it may disable the laptop screen. If that is what happened there is probably a key or key combination that could be used to enable your screen again. The key or key combination depends on the laptop so you should check your manual.
1066235
That's because on your desktop the resolution is set to 800X600 and the rest of the world (major Corps) wants us to switch to 1024X168 ...but the final Annalise's is people are not converting to a higher resolution and staying with 800X600. So the day will come when we will never have to scroll sideways...or we will all have the new wider monitors\n\nGood Luck
107195
It is possible that it is set to use an external monitor, If you had it hooked to one hook it up again and go to display settings.
740922
if you increase the number of displaying pixels, everything will be small surely. you can do nothing to stop it because it is the configuration of the computer. even if you bought a new LCD, it would be just like that
870852
With some Dells, you can press the Fn key along with F7 to enable screen expansion.  I hope this works for your laptop, but if it does not, then I'm giving you the link for Dell online support.  The site was a bit fussy tonight and I could not get through, but "enable screen expansion" is the issue you want to research.\n\nhttp://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/entry?c=us&l=en&s=gen\n\nGood luck to you!
933866
There should be a combination of keys you can push to get it to switch displays.  For Compaqs, I think it's Fn+F4.  For Dells, it's Fn+F8.\n\nSee if any of the keys on your keyboard has a picture of a monitor or the words "CRT/LCD," in a different color.  That, combined with your Fn key, usually tells the display to output somewhere else.  Good luck.  =)
985790
I think some video cards support multiple desktops. maybe yours do too.
529910
You need a wide screen monitor for your PC. I have the same experience as you, with both of my computers.
991022
there are special LCD wipes that you should use to cleant these screens.  They should have been supplied by your laptop, but if not then you should go out to a computer store and get LCD screen wipes.
444558
if you have a lcd monitor there is no reason to have a screen saver. the images no longer get burnt into the monitor like they did in the old days of computing
81581
I don't think so ususally laptops do not have video inputs, so all you can display on the laptop screen is the laptop output. Sorry!
1136875
This happens when you use a smaller resolution than the native one. Try setting your screen to a larger resolution to see if it helps. You can also check your bios settings to see if you can emulate a large screen all the time(my laptop calls it "expand screen")
18329
You might have to send it back to HP.  Parts like laptop displays aren't as available as pc parts.
725882
You should be able to adjust this with the display properties.\n\nRight-click your mouse on the desktop (any open area outside a window).\nSelect Properties on the menu.\nLeft-click the Settings tab.\nAdjust the screen resolution to get the 16:9 widescreen that you want.