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  Help me with this!
 
The used screen space on my laptop shrunk for no specific reason. Could you people help me fix this? I can't do anything major like reinstalling Windows. Please help! TIA Alan (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Help me with this!
 
(...) This is a guess: your laptop has a 1024x768 or 800x600 screen, and some program has decided to shift you into 640x480 mode. On a desktop PC, that'd be fine -- it'd just make the pixels bigger. Things would be blockier, but you'd have the same (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Help me with this!
 
(...) What kind of Laptop? What version of Windows? My instinctive response is "check the bios" and "toggle the LCD/CRT setting" HTH James (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Help me with this!
 
(...) Windows. (...) Toshiba Tecra 530 CDT, Win 95 (...) LCD/CRT didn't help, and I have no idea how to mess with BIOS. Alan (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Help me with this!
 
(...) Haven't played a whole lot with Toshibas, so I'm not sure what the BIOS access keys are...your manual should tell you how to get into and check BIOS settings. Hmm. Did Matthew's suggestion help? That would be my next guess. Then confirm that (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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