Monitor - Desktop does not fill screen.

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I cannot get my desktop display to fill the screen. It is a 13 inch screen
and it fills only about 10.5 of it. I tried adjusting it manually on the
monitor but the maximum does not fill it. It filled it before, and I did not
change the settings. They are High Color, 1024x78, 85 htz. The only program
I downloaded recently was a movie maing program called muvee. What am I
missing?
 
Right click a blank area of the Desktop | Properties | Settings
tab | Advanced button | Monitor tab | Screen refresh rate.

Fiddle with the refresh rate until your display fills the screen.

You will probably have to lower the setting. Mine is set at 60 HZ.
Some people advise against this setting. It's supposed to make your
screen flicker.

Mine does not flicker. 60 HZ is the only setting that allows
the display to fill my screen.

With that small of a monitor you might want to try something lower than
1024x768, it will make things look bigger, 960x600 or 800x600. I have mine
set at 800x600 and I have a little bigger monitor (15.2" visible).

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

Fiddle with the refresh rate until your display fills the screen.

You will probably have to lower the setting. Mine is set at 60 HZ.
Some people advise against this setting. It's supposed to make your
screen flicker.
Click to expand...

The flicker is usually caused by any lamps you have near your computer. The
60HZ refresh rate is the same as the 60 HZ 110V AC outlets in your home.

And the reason there is flicker is because the 60 Hz of both are out of
sync with each other. I've noticed it's much more of a problem when the
lights are flourescent.
 
Yes, fluorescents cause more of a problem. My fluorescent lights are in the
garage and the computer is in the house. I do not suffer from the problem,
I only mention it as a small warning.

[[Screen flicker results from a variety of factors, the most important of
which is the monitor refresh rate. If the refresh rate is too slow, the
screen may appear to glimmer. Another factor that affects screen flicker is
the persistence of the screen phosphors. Low-persistence phosphors fade more
quickly than high-persistence phosphors, making screen flicker more likely.
Screen flicker can also be affected by fluorescent lighting. Also, screen
flicker is a subjective perception that affects people differently. Some
people perceive screen flicker where others do not. Most people perceive no
screen flicker if the refresh rate is 72 MHz or higher. To reduce the
affects of screen flicker, use solid colors for the Windows desktop, rather
than dithers and patterns. If you have fluorescent lighting, you may want to
configure your hardware to use a non-interlaced video adapter mode. ]]
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/228212

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