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New Computer at Work...
It's a Dell and I now have one of those new skinny monitors. It makes a lot more space on the desk but it seems fuzzy to me. But here's my question. the Belknap Lakes webpage displays full screen (all the way across) here at home. On the new set up at work it displays from the left to about 3/4 of the way over on the new monitor. There must be a setting I should adjust? Thanks for your help McD
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Re: New Computer at Work...
I have a 19" flat LCD monitor at work, and unless you set it to the recommended 1280 x 1024 resolution, or 1.25 to 1, it is fuzzy. I think the problem is that these big monitors have a different length to width ratio, so if you try to display a page designed for a 1.33 to 1 ratio and fill the screen with it, it can't match pixel for pixel and it gets fuzzy. It really sucks because the application that I use every day which was designed by our tech guy will either be fuzzy at full screen, or be about 3/4 the size of my nice big monitor. What a waste of all that "real estate". At this smaller size though, it is sharp and in focus.
If you have it set to any other resolution other than the recommended one, there are some monitor adjustments on the monitor itself that will get the ratio close to the original but not exact.
One other thing that he had me check was the display hertz setting found in the monitors section of your computer. Try out the different settings there to see if it makes a difference. It didn't in my case, so I just have to deal with a smaller picture.
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Hey McD,
I'm at work now and I see that this site doesn't expand in width as you stretch the window to fill the big screen whereas the WoffL site does. If you compare the settings at both sites, you might find what to change to make this one expand.
To get to the Hertz setting, Right click the desktop, choose properties, click the settings tab then the advanced settings b u t t o n. Click the monitor tab and there should be a drop down menu for the screen refresh rate.
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Re: New Computer at Work...
I'm thinking that Skokey has got it right when he mentions monitor resoluton. I don't know what you had before but I'll guess it was a CRT and that you had the resolution setting* to something like 1024 x 768 or perhaps even 800 x 600. Most new non-widescreen 19" LCDs are 1280 pixels wide x 1024 pixels tall. Unlike CRTs you really need to run the display at a resolution that exactly matches the monitor's "native" resolution (that probably being 1280 x 1024). If you don't, things will look fuzzy as Windows tries to unintelligently cram 3+ pixels into 2 pixels. One other possibility is that with the new resolution things (icons, text, etc) may be smaller in size than what you had before. Not sure if this might appear as being fuzzy to you.
Skokey is also correct in that this site doesn't expand (width-wise) to fill what window size you have. It seems to be locked at ~800 pixels wide. If this used to fill (width-wise) your old monitor then I'm guessing you used to run at a lesser resolution than you have now. No matter, just means you can fit other open windows on your monitor and still see them (provided the text isn't too small).
*To see or change your screen resolution follow these (similar to Skokey's) instructions. Right click on an empty part of your desktop and left click on the "properties" line of the resulting box. This should pop-up a "Display Properties" box. Left click on the tab labelled "Settings" and near the bottom left of that box you should see a "Screen Resolution" slider. Usually you can just slide it all the way to the right and that'll set the display to the "native" resolution of your new LCD monitor. If not try sliding it until is indicates 1280x1024 and then left click the "apply" button and see if it looks OK. If the fonts are too small you can try a larger set by clicking the "Appearance" tab in the Display Properties box. Under "Font size" try Large fonts or even Extra Large Fonts.
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Re: New Computer at Work...
Wow....I can do a lot of things on the computer....like build a web page etc.....but all this talk about hardware issues and adjusting settings gives me a headache! I was actually talking about the Belknap Lakes WEB PAGE...not this discussion forum. I don't think the new skinny monitor at work is a wide screen. I think it is the same as this one (here....I'm at home so I can't try any of your suggestions out!) as far as size goes.
What I am going to do is print out your suggestions (Thanks BTW I'm pretty clueless about this stuff) and have a friend at work who is much more knowledgable about this stuff come in and fool around with it. It may be locked (the settings) as the new techies are keeping a pretty tight lid on things. (NO AOL messenger! Wordperfect? What do you want Wordperfect for? Well you can't have it because we don't support it and because we don't own the license for it....yaddy yaddy ya....)
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NEXT QUESTION....... question
A few months ago windows updated itself and it now prompts me to run an Active X control on the Belknap Lakes web page whenever I open it up. What the hell is that?
.....and how do I get rid of it?
Thanks in advance
PS - I am running Windows XP.
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Re: New Computer at Work...
Sounds like the screen resolution issue Skok is right on the money, as far as the active x control item- it's a windows security update that causes this with XP.
I have similar issues on my laptop it runs XP, I prefer to run Windows 2000 pro.
Has the machine updated it's self since that particular update? Windows XP has a feature that lets you return the system to a previous state.
Off hand I forget how to get to it- but will fire up the laptop investigate and get back to you with it if you like.
PS: you can turn off the auto update feature too.
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