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Posts: 71279 (17 Jun, 2009 12:03 PM) Administrator |
All of a sudden my widescreen monitor is only using a standard amount of screen with vertical black bars on either side. I've tried adjusting the screen resolution to various settings and it makes no difference. This happened immediately after I loaded a DVD film disk to watch on my pc. Does anyone have an idea what's happened here and how to fix it?
Last Edited By: Julia333 17 Jun, 2009 12:59 PM.
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Posts: 71281 (17 Jun, 2009 3:38 PM) Administrator |
 Everything is now under control! 
My son just arrived and I asked him. It took him a second to diagnose and fix - he simply hit the button '4:3 in Wide' on my monitor. I feel such a fool. 
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Posts: 15693 (17 Jun, 2009 7:41 PM) Ardent Anglophile
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That´s what sons are there for, Jules.
 
My older male students give me good tips all the time. I love men who are good with technical stuff, btw, I´m so utterly helpless with these things - though not necessarily helpless (I can easily learn everything as long as they explain it to me), but clueless. 
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Posts: 3769 (20 Jun, 2009 5:58 AM) Super Sprøde |
LOL! Oh Julia.
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Posts: 71460 (21 Jun, 2009 12:37 AM) Administrator |
 Steve! Thank you for not laughing too loud.
Actually, I just pressed the other buttons on the monitor to see what they do. There is 'picture', 'colour', 'tracking' and 'set up' but how you manipulate those whatevertheyare is anyone's guess! I tried grabbing them with my mouse but nothing happened.
Cassia, you can't be a genius at everything, can you now? 
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Posts: 3802 (21 Jun, 2009 6:39 AM) Super Sprøde |
Ahem *keeps mouth shut*
There should be arrow buttons or something like that to increase/decrease those settings; messing about with it is the best way to figure it out, also having your son there just in case.
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Posts: 15809 (21 Jun, 2009 9:55 AM) Ardent Anglophile
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Julia333 wrote:No, but I would like to be!!
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Posts: 4619 (21 Jun, 2009 12:28 PM) Ditto's Bad Boy |
Sombience wrote:That and the Fire Department. 
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Posts: 71784 (29 Jun, 2009 1:24 PM) Administrator |
S'okay, I figured it out in the end, Steve. 
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