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Oversized Display

PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:33 am
by Torquay-Pete
Hello again
A Freind of mine has been having problems with his PC lateley and I have
managed to sort some of these out (installing ad-aware and removing over 600 dubious entries!!) but he has a problem with everything on his screen is about 5 times normal size!!
We have tried to alter this in the display function , but this will not respond to any attempts to ajust it. (we also found 3 trojans and a worm)
and have Quarantined them with AVG anti-virus.
Any suggestions would be more than welcome.
Thanx Pete :cool:

PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:22 am
by liljim
a few questions...

What is the resolution set on?
What exactly is oversized,icons,text or everything?
Under Device Manager,is the video card listed correctly?
Are there any errors next to it in the Device Manager?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:52 pm
by Torquay-Pete
Tnanx for the questions , I`ll get back to you once I have the answers!!!
Someone suggested that re-installing the Drivers might help? what is your Veiw on this?
Cheers Pete :mad:

PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:45 pm
by teststrips
you can go to the appearance tab of the display control pannel. Set it to winxp default and see if it makes a difference

PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:45 pm
by liljim
In some cases,you can reinstall drivers but i would follow teststrips advise first.If it doesnt help,go to the device manager,expand Display Adaptors and uninstall your video card.Reboot and windows should detect it and reinstall to default settings.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:49 pm
by Restek
The other place to check is control panel, display, appearance, font-size :)