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Re: Help me with this!
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 25 Feb 2000 04:20:55 GMT
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Alan Gerber <foofoogood@hotmail.com.die_evil_unsolicited_e-mail> wrote:
> 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.
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 amount of screen space.
On a laptop, things are different. You've got a fixed number of fixed-size
pixels. So in order to do 640x480, it just uses the center bit of the
screen.
There's probably a "stretch" option, which uses 1.6 real pixels to represent
each pixel displayed, but as you can imagine, that looks really ugly.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| 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)
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