Tale of Two Monitors

[John Gregory]

I've got two monitors set to a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. I read news,
charts, and numbers most of the time; rarely need high resolution but it's
probably nice to have if there's a way to do so without sacrificing the
larger fonts and full screens I seem to get with this setting. I'm not very
knowledgeable about video setting; I understand the basics.



When I shift the "Display Properties" Settings/Screen resolution bar to the
right, the image representing the 1st monitor increases in size (with a
corresponding rise in resolution) and the 2nd decreases with corresponding
results. When I bring up a web browser in screen 1, the font is smaller -
even when I call for "Large text" - and the content (like a portfolio spread
on Yahoo Finance) has significant white margin on either side of the screen
raising the question. why would I ever want to do this? Is there something
regarding resolution that I'd see if I were more deeply involved with
images?



Assuming I left the monitors with one dominant over the other, is there a
way to make that Yahoo page fill to the margins?

 

[John Gregory]

And now I just received notice that the Wall Street Journal On-Line is
changing its format. Now it works like the Yahoo Finance page; it fills more
than the whole screen and leaves a tad out, forcing me to use the slide bar
at the bottom to move the text to the left. If I change the screen
resolution up a notch, I get that margin on either side. Surely there's some
setting I can make that optimizes everything. No?

 

[Guest]

Try going to windows media home page,locate utilities,download the "EXHIBITOR
PRO" The utility is for xp with 2 working monitors....

 

[John Gregory]

Nothing of that name at MS Windows site.

Try going to windows media home page,locate utilities,download the
"EXHIBITOR
PRO" The utility is for xp with 2 working monitors....

 

[Guest]

hey sounds like a deeper problem i dula screen myself cause well its handy
and no there is no way to fill the margins well let me correct myself there
are a few ways but short of modifying the source code your gonna have that
blank space when you stretch the window across the screens but what are your
system specs?