monitor resolutions

J

Jim

I have a 22" widescreen monitor, and the native resolution just makes the
text too small. I've made changes for larger text, icons, and so forth, but
on several websites, you get what you get.

What resolutions can I use that would be suitable. The native is 1680 x
1050. Any help is appreciated.

Jim
 
G

Gerry

Start, Control Panel, Display, Settings, Screen Resolutions. Drag the
slider to the left and click on Aplly. You may need to Restart the
Computer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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J

Jim

Many of those resolutions are for a "standard" monitor, not widescreen, but
are you saying that they will work, and not look really distorted?

Thanks,

Jim
 
G

Gerry

Jim

I don't know! You can only experiment and revert to what you had if it
doesn't work.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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G

Guest

things do look a liiiiiiitle bit stretched, but i guess its better than
having words so small that they are unreadable to you.
 
L

Lil' Dave

Nope, that's the recommended resolution that the monitor quotes as a message
directly from the monitor itself. Usually, there is a way to disable such a
nag message by the monitor controls. My video adapter only does 60Hz for
that resolution, so I backtracked one notch to get 75Hz.

Once the monitor nag message is disabled, setup the resolution that you're
comfortable with.
Dave
 
J

Jim Macklin

Try the accessibility options to over-ride web site set font
sizes.




| Nope, that's the recommended resolution that the monitor
quotes as a message
| directly from the monitor itself. Usually, there is a way
to disable such a
| nag message by the monitor controls. My video adapter
only does 60Hz for
| that resolution, so I backtracked one notch to get 75Hz.
|
| Once the monitor nag message is disabled, setup the
resolution that you're
| comfortable with.
| Dave
|
| | >I have a 22" widescreen monitor, and the native
resolution just makes the
| >text too small. I've made changes for larger text,
icons, and so forth,
| >but on several websites, you get what you get.
| >
| > What resolutions can I use that would be suitable. The
native is 1680 x
| > 1050. Any help is appreciated.
| >
| > Jim
| >
|
|
 
S

Singapore Web Design

Hello,

This is the reason why I still stick to CRT monitors for desktop use. You
have two ways

1) Use a lower resolution, but a more softer picture as the monitor will
scale the image to fit the screen
2) Enable accessibility options in Internet Explorer Options to ignore web
page font sizes, but many web pages will not look as designed (i use this
for my ultraportable)
3) Buy a new LCD that has a lower native resolution - LCD TVs fall in this
category

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G

Guest

any and all web sites, you are not forced to use the web sites fonts, check
your advanced settings in IE
 

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