How can I made a widescreen...not wide?

[Guest]

I've done it before, which is what I don't understand. I'm trying to make my
Widescreen Presario V2000 have a smaller screen. It had about 2 inches of
black on each side of the actual screen. It was as if 2 inches had been cut
off of the screen and were just black. For example:
b=black
screen is the screen.
__________
|b| scr |b|
|b| ee |b|
|b|__n__|b|
The sides are black, and the center would be the screen.
I've done that before, but I don't remember how I did it.
I know it had something with the resolution, but I've tried a lot of
different combos and it still didn't work. :-(

Can someone who knows the answer to my question please help me out?

Thank you!

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Right click a blank area of the Desktop | Properties | Settings
tab | Advanced button | Monitor tab | Screen refresh rate

Fiddle with the refresh rate

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[Robert Gault]

I've done it before, which is what I don't understand. I'm trying to make my
Widescreen Presario V2000 have a smaller screen. It had about 2 inches of
black on each side of the actual screen. It was as if 2 inches had been cut
off of the screen and were just black. For example:
b=black
screen is the screen.
__________
|b| scr |b|
|b| ee |b|
|b|__n__|b|
The sides are black, and the center would be the screen.
I've done that before, but I don't remember how I did it.
I know it had something with the resolution, but I've tried a lot of
different combos and it still didn't work. :-(

Can someone who knows the answer to my question please help me out?

Thank you!

Probably a setting the the video drivers. Post the details of your video
system, if you want useful answers.

For example, nVidia drivers have a panel "digital flat panel settings"
which permits "centered output". The effect would be as you describe.

 

[Guest]

No it doesn't work. It's only got one option, 60, and yeah, that doesn't do
anything. But thanks for helping anyway!

 

[Wesley Vogel]

If I set my refresh rate higher than 60 HZ, the display does not fill the
screen. 120 HZ is the worst, about an inch of black all around.

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[Guest]

Never mind guys I got it. I just had to uncheck this circle that said
"fit resolution in widescreen". haha But thanks for your generous replies!
:-D

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Seems straight forward enough. ;-)

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[Donald McDaniel]

I've done it before, which is what I don't understand. I'm trying to make my
Widescreen Presario V2000 have a smaller screen. It had about 2 inches of
black on each side of the actual screen. It was as if 2 inches had been cut
off of the screen and were just black. For example:
b=black
screen is the screen.
__________
|b| scr |b|
|b| ee |b|
|b|__n__|b|
The sides are black, and the center would be the screen.
I've done that before, but I don't remember how I did it.
I know it had something with the resolution, but I've tried a lot of
different combos and it still didn't work. :-(

Can someone who knows the answer to my question please help me out?

Thank you!

Sometimes, Jessica, this has nothing to do with your display's
resolution, but rather with the way a media file was encoded.

If a media file is encoded at an aspect ratio unlike your display, it
will display with dark edges. Changing the display resolution will
have no effect in that case.

Example: If a media file is encoded for an aspect ratio of 4:3 (like
most monitors or televisions) it will always display with dark edges
on a wide-screen display. Changing the resolution of your display
will not help in that case. Only reencoding it for a wide-aspect
display will change its appearance on a wide-screen display.

Of course, you could be referring to your Compaq's display
aspect-ratio settings. If it is a wide-screen display, and set for a
lower aspect ratio, it will display those darker bands. The solution
in that case would be to change the aspect ratio of the display.

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