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Posted by i'm good on August 31, 2005, 10:14 pm
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> shook an Etch A Sketch before scribbling:
> > HI all- I just bought a Dell Latitude C600- how do I get the displayed
> > images to cover the WHOLE screen instead of just a small box in the
> > center? Thanks!!!
>
> There are a couple different solutions, depending on what you are trying
to
> do.
>
> If you want the boot screen and DOS text screens sized up, go into the
BIOS
> (hitting F2 or whatever key it says when you first boot the computer) and
> find the option for "video expansion" or some such thing. Turn it on.
>
> Otherwise, right click on your desktop, select Properties, then click the
> Settings tab. Look for the "Screen area" slider, and move it all the way
to
> the right. It will probably go to 1025 by 768. Click apply to have it
> resize. This will put the screen to its native resolution, which is best.
>
> If you just want expansion turned on so that games & such that use reduced
> resolutions like 640x480 will fill the screen, stay on the Settings
screen.
> Push the Advanced button. Look for a tab called "Displays" and on that
tab
> there should be a button for the LCD, probably called "Panel" which, when
> clicked, should then give you a button that says "Scale image to panel
> size."
That's the reason I decided I couldn't use a widescreen computer. That
'scale image'
for a 4:3 size will cause it to become a small box or reduced box in the
centre, rather
than just pillarboxed. It is letterboxed and pillarboxed for 4:3 which I
cannot accept.
If I cannot accept it I shouldn't use a widescreen computer.
Unless there is a way to just pillarbox for say, 1024 X 768 on a screen
capable of 1280 X 800.
For 800 X 600 the 'scale image' effect is unacceptable.
ig
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