Window xp starts up with wrong resolution?
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Hit F8 and boot into safe mode, make resolution change  and apply.
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That happens sometimes on mine. You should be able to right-click the icon in the taskbar and Maximize or Resize it. It's probably more of an XP than a Dell problem.
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Your screen resolution may be too big.  Here's how to reduce it.\n\nRight-click anywhere on your desktop, then choose Properties.  Click the Settings tab.  Look at the setting for Screen Resolution.  It's probably at 640 X 480, or 800 X 600.  Move the slider to the right to choose a higher resolution (it makes everything smaller).  Click OK, and any confirmation screen OK.  If you like it, just click the confirmation OK in time and you're set.  If you don't, click Cancel and start over.
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In top menu, go to view >> Text Size >>> Large or larger. You can also reduce the resolution little bit, but I don't like to do that. To reduce resolution, right click on desktop, go to properties, go to settings and reduce the resolution.
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If your using windows xp, uninstall the video driver. \nwhen the system reboots, it will reinstall the vid driver, tell you that it needs to reboot for the newly installed driver and when you come back up, the resolution should be set automatically
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format your c drive and do a clean installation of XP... make sure you have the drivers for your monitor...
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I would guess that you are running to high a resolution. Try running in safe mode, to do that restart your system but when it says its loading Windows, start hitting F8. From there select safe mode, then when windows is loaded, right click on the desktop and change the resolution to either 800x600 or you could try 640x480. if those do not work, you may have a problem with your monitor. How old is the monitor? Maybe the monitor cant handle the video card.
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Hi,\nThis is Bobby, a Network Engineer by profession. If you are talking about the Desktop Screen then press CTRL and ALT keys together, let the keys be pressed use the arrow keys to adjust the orientation of desktop in any of the four corners as you desire.\n\nAlternatively, right click on Desktop, goto Properties, then click on Settings.It will show option to change Screen Resolution and Colour Properties. Adjust the Screen Resolution Slider to increase or decrease the screen resolution, click on OK. Later you can rollback to yours previous screen resolution, if you desire.\n\nGood Luck... :):)
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Your best option is to run a repair on your XP installation.\nMake the CD the boot drive, put in you XP installation disk and follow the questions. Once the setup says it  discovered a previous version of Windows take the option of doing a Repair. This will over install your XP and maintain a lot of your setting's
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Did you accidently change the settings of your desktop appearance? Right Click on your desktop and click Properties. Click on the Settings Tab on top. Now below you will see the Display type and then Screen Resolution. Trying making that a little bigger by moving the little bar to the right. See if that fixes your problem.
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I'm assuming you right-clicked on your desktop and did Properties, then went to the Settings tab and tried to change the slider for the resolution?  If you do know how to change the resolution which I think you do, then have you installed the proper drivers for your graphics card?  You should be able to grab them from the manufactures website.  How long as your resolution been stuck at 640x480?  Just curious if you recently reinstalled Windows, or what might have caused it.
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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.
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I'm assuming you are running windows XP.  Right click on the desktop, click properties, select the settings tab, Click on monitor 2, click extend my desktop onto this montor and then set the resolution.
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To run programs in Windows Application Compatibility mode in Windows XP:\n\n1. Right–click the icon of the program that you want to fix. \n \n2. Click Properties. \n \n3. Click Compatibility tab. \n \n4. Click Run this program in compatibility mode and select one of the options.\n\n5. Under Display settings, check the mode that you think is necessary for the program to work correctly: \n• Run in 256 colors. \n• Run in 640 X 480 screen resolution. \n• Disable visual themes. \n\n6. Click Apply. \n \n7.  Click Ok. \n \n8. Double–click the program icon. \n\nNote  The Compatibility tab is only available for programs installed on your hard drive. Although you can run the Program Compatibility Wizard on programs or setup files on a CD–ROM or floppy disk, your changes will not remain in effect after you close the program. For more information about an option on the Compatibility tab, right–click the option and then click What's This.
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Hi,\n\nMany of us face the similar situation. I have a solution for this...\n\n--1. Change your resolution to 1024x768, from the Display properties.\n\n--2. In the same window, find a button called 'Advanced' (below 'Color Quality' box). Click it.\n\n--3. In the 'Advanced' window, there is a portion of 'DPI Setting', and a drop down box below to it.\n\n--4. The default setting is 'Normal size (96 DPI)'.\n\n--5. Change it to 'Large Size (120 DPI)', and click 'Apply', then click OK.\n\n--6. You need to restart your computer after that, and see, how are the fonts looking. Whether it is suiting your eyes or not.\n\n--7. If you want bigger fonts, then, click 'Custom Setting' (below 'Large Size'), and enter bigger percentage.\n\n\nI hope, it helps for your eyes. All the very best.\n\n:-)
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Turn down the frequency.  It's one of the options that you might be able to set from right clicking the desktop and going to properties.  It should be somewhere near setting monitor resolution.\n\nIf you can't even do that, try booting to Safe Mode upon bootup.
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Go to Contolpanel/System and then:\nclick on the advanced tab and then click the first setting button on the top of the window...& then:\nSelect "adjust for best performance"\nif u don't want to lose the visual styles on windows choose the three choice in the bottom of the window.\nand finally click "OK".\nU can also go to Run program from start menu and type "msconfig" in the addressbar and then click "OK"...now System Configuration Utility launches...then, go to the startup tab and remove any program u don't wanna run when the Operating system starts up.\nhope it'll be useful!!