Solve : everything's really big!?

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Answer» My little girl switched the computer on and off several times and now everything on the screen is much bigger (icons, text etc). Colours have gone all strange too. For example this web PAGE has side and bottom bars, otherwise it doesn't fit into the screen, as if I've clicked on the two little squares on the right hand corner of the window. Please help!! Frenchie On your monitor you'll see some buttons just below the screen. They control the brightness, contrast, and screen adjustment. These options vary among the monitor manufacters, so the best thing to learn how these work is just by messing around with them. Just be careful!!! [glb]Gizmo73[/glb]1. Right click on desktop 2. Select properties 3. Settings tab 4. Set resolution and amount of colours. If you can not see any other resolutions or colours in the list you MAY need to reinstall videocard drivers.I have the same problem...everything really big. I have tried changing the screen area settings (I know I'm doing that right because I've done the same thing at my computer at work and it worked just fine). After I click Apply or Okay, there is a message that says "You must restart your computer before the settings take effect". After I restart the computer, the settings are not saved. I don't get the message that says your desktop will change in 15 seconds. I'm a simple computer user, so please no big words or industry vernacular. For example, I immediately understood "everything's really big" long before I figured out what "screen resolution meant" Thanks for any help you can provide. 1. Right click on the Desktop (Background) 2. Click properties 3. Click on the Settings tab (First from the right) 4. Click on the advanced button 5. Now you are accessing the General tab 6. Under compatability, set the method of changing the resolution to whatever you desire. See if this solves your problem.Go to the top of your screen.....click view now scroll down to text....and change it to mediumIt happened to me occasionally. I have not found other way to solve that problem than reinstall Windows. It happens... How little is your little girl? Maybe you should teach her how to stop and start the computer... Oh, and she is not to be blamed, SOMETIMES Windows just "dies" alone. Quote Oh, and she is not to be blamed, sometimes Windows just "dies" alone. The user is at fault 99% of the times. Computers are not meant to be used by children. If they were, they would be unbreakable.I have found the compatabilities area and experimented with each one to no avail. The screen area slider always reverts BACK to 640 x 480 no matter which variation of colors (16 colors, 256 colors or High Colors 16bit) And no matter which compatability button I select, I always get the message about having to restart the computer. Thanks for your help.Right click on desktop (in a empty area, not on a shortcut or something else); choose "Settings", then "Advanced", choose "General" (it should be already there) and see what option is selected (it should be "Apply new display settings without restarting"). After that, restart your computer and try to change again the resolution. I suppose you have Windows XP installed. Have you tried to press (many times) F8 when computer starts; a menu should appear; choose "Use last good known configuration"? Tell us what happens.Your display drivers may be corrupted, have you tried to reinstall them?Ussually, if they are corrupted, even after reinstall they will BEHAVE the same... From experience with the same type of error...Viking, should that happen again, try using the following tool: Driver Cleaner -- Removes driver remains after the uninstallation thereof. Be certain to follow the instructions carefully otherwise things will go wrong. Raptor, I have not tried to reinstall my video drivers. I don't know how to do that. What operating system is used?win98?

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My little girl switched the computer on and off several times and now everything on the screen is much bigger (icons, text etc). Colours have gone all strange too.

For example this web PAGE has side and bottom bars, otherwise it doesn't fit into the screen, as if I've clicked on the two little squares on the right hand corner of the window.

Please help!!

Frenchie
On your monitor you'll see some buttons just below the screen. They control the brightness, contrast, and screen adjustment. These options vary among the monitor manufacters, so the best thing to learn how these work is just by messing around with them. Just be careful!!!

[glb]Gizmo73[/glb]1. Right click on desktop
2. Select properties
3. Settings tab
4. Set resolution and amount of colours.

If you can not see any other resolutions or colours in the list you MAY need to reinstall videocard drivers.I have the same problem...everything really big. I have tried changing the screen area settings (I know I'm doing that right because I've done the same thing at my computer at work and it worked just fine). After I click Apply or Okay, there is a message that says "You must restart your computer before the settings take effect". After I restart the computer, the settings are not saved. I don't get the message that says your desktop will change in 15 seconds.
I'm a simple computer user, so please no big words or industry vernacular. For example, I immediately understood "everything's really big" long before I figured out what "screen resolution meant"
Thanks for any help you can provide. 1. Right click on the Desktop (Background)
2. Click properties
3. Click on the Settings tab (First from the right)
4. Click on the advanced button
5. Now you are accessing the General tab
6. Under compatability, set the method of changing the resolution to whatever you desire.

See if this solves your problem.Go to the top of your screen.....click view now scroll down to text....and change it to mediumIt happened to me occasionally. I have not found other way to solve that problem than reinstall Windows. It happens...
How little is your little girl? Maybe you should teach her how to stop and start the computer... Oh, and she is not to be blamed, SOMETIMES Windows just "dies" alone. Quote

Oh, and she is not to be blamed, sometimes Windows just "dies" alone.

The user is at fault 99% of the times. Computers are not meant to be used by children. If they were, they would be unbreakable.I have found the compatabilities area and experimented with each one to no avail. The screen area slider always reverts BACK to 640 x 480 no matter which variation of colors (16 colors, 256 colors or High Colors 16bit)

And no matter which compatability button I select, I always get the message about having to restart the computer.

Thanks for your help.Right click on desktop (in a empty area, not on a shortcut or something else); choose "Settings", then "Advanced", choose "General" (it should be already there) and see what option is selected (it should be "Apply new display settings without restarting"). After that, restart your computer and try to change again the resolution.
I suppose you have Windows XP installed.
Have you tried to press (many times) F8 when computer starts; a menu should appear; choose "Use last good known configuration"? Tell us what happens.Your display drivers may be corrupted, have you tried to reinstall them?Ussually, if they are corrupted, even after reinstall they will BEHAVE the same... From experience with the same type of error...Viking, should that happen again, try using the following tool:

Driver Cleaner
-- Removes driver remains after the uninstallation thereof.

Be certain to follow the instructions carefully otherwise things will go wrong.

Raptor,
I have not tried to reinstall my video drivers. I don't know how to do that. What operating system is used?win98?

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