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      27th Sep 2009


mindydee113 wrote:
> I started out trying to install a driver for a webcam. Let me just
> say, I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to computers. I
> didn't know what I was doing and could not find webcam driver, so i
> decided to give up and uninstall whatever i had done. i think i may
> have uninstalled wrong driver. everything on computer got really big,
> words, icons, everything! so i looked on yahoo answers how to fix
> this. i went to screen resolution. was able to get things smaller
> but something is still off. it still looks funny. screen resolution
> will only go to far left or far right, i can not set it to anything
> in the middle to try and fix the look of my screen. I read up on
> this prob, screen resolution not working and was told i needed to
> install a driver for my video card. tried to find out what kind of
> video card i have and it says " the system is using the generic video
> driver provided by hardware manufacturer." main driver vga.dll
> version 5.01.2600.0000 english. looked up brand and spec of card and
> found this info: name: video controller (VGA compatible), installed
> drivers: not available, installed version: not available. so I
> know I need to re-install a driver for my video card but how and what
> kind of driver? where do i find it? spell it out for me in plain
> english as i am a big dummy at this kind of stuff. trying to save $
> and not go to best buy with this!!!! I have a COMPAQ Presario R3000
> laptop running on windows xp if that helps. then after all that I
> need to figure out how to load the webcam driver for Philips Pixel
> Plus webcam!!!!!! was given to me used, with no disk!!! thanks
> guys!

Hopefully someone who knows XP will be along shortly to fix your problem. It
shouldn't take long.
Have you tried doing a System Restore from a time just before the problem
happened?
System Restore? Use Start,Help to see how to use it.
Buffalo


 
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