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A bit of techy info needed please.
Dragonlady 25
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I know I should have posted this on the technical site but I thought this area has more traffic so here goes!
Earlier today I was working on my lap top while sitting on the sofa. I had to leave it for a few minutes so left the lappy on the sofa with a newspaper over the keys. While I was out of the room, one of my dogs chased over the sofa because someone had walked past. (Cocker Spaniel, very territorial!!) Anyway, when i got back the picture/working screen of the lappy had shrunk. I now have a picture in the centre of the screen with a black border round it.
So, the question is can anyone help me restore my picture to fill the screen please.
Thank you.
(Or should O have put this onto Advice??)
Earlier today I was working on my lap top while sitting on the sofa. I had to leave it for a few minutes so left the lappy on the sofa with a newspaper over the keys. While I was out of the room, one of my dogs chased over the sofa because someone had walked past. (Cocker Spaniel, very territorial!!) Anyway, when i got back the picture/working screen of the lappy had shrunk. I now have a picture in the centre of the screen with a black border round it.
So, the question is can anyone help me restore my picture to fill the screen please.
Thank you.
(Or should O have put this onto Advice??)
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Could be sorted one of two ways. First try if it's in projector mode, usually it's hold down Fn key and press F5 - it should cycle between three modes - laptop only, laptop and projector, projector only (screen will be blank in this mode). If it's in laptop and projector mode that's not unusual to resize the screen.
If it's not that you could check out your resolution. On windows right-click on the desktop, choose 'properties' and you can adjust screen resolution in there (I think, I'm not on windows).
I tried these. Fn + F5=screen went blank and stayed blank. I had to switch off and start again.
Windows 'properties' is just for task bars and not resolution.
Thank you for your help-I'll just have to go cap in hand to the techy-boys at work tomorrow!!:o
(Bluddy dog.................)
You're welcome.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
That's how I got this one!! I dropped my last one.
It's got to be an easy fix. The dog just jumped/spring boarded on it. She can't have done THAT much damage. Can she?
Definitely this. Control Panel - Appearance and Personalisation - Adjust Resolution.
Or right click desktop and select screen resolution.
Change it to the highest on the slider and click apply. It should fix the issue.
Thank you SO much, SJ. I will place an amount of money into the next charity box I see in your name!
careful with that, some video drivers although rare have all resolutions and some high ones that the monitor can't support. Generally though 90% of the time that works.
Oh indeed, it was just easier than trying to guess a likely resolution
Mostly
So I have a question about this.
...how did the dog manage to do all that?
I think this is more likley.
I wondered that too. Being a Cocker Spaniel, she's very beautiful and she knows it, but she's as thick as 2 short planks so whatever she did do was accidental!!
I think, as others have said, it was short cuts.