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topic: 2817Monitor Settings
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posted: 9 Jan 2016 11:42

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Phil O
 
Plymouth - United Kingdom

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Hi All

I have just got a 21 inch wide screen monitor, the display is distorted sideways, can anyone please give me a pointer which removes the distortion. I have tried several different settings, but it is difficult to see what works as all the icons are hidden by the settings screen. The one that I did try which was reasonable in getting it more or less right, made everything quite small. The current setting is 1280 x 1024 the one I tried that got things right but was small, was 1920 x 1080.

Many Thanks for any help.

Phil

posted: 9 Jan 2016 12:06

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Hi Phil,

Assuming it is a flat-screen monitor and not an old CRT display, there is only one setting which will look sharp, i.e. the native dot-pitch of the underlying hardware. 1920 x 1080 is very likely that, sometimes called 1080p:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p

If that makes everything too small, you need to change the dpi setting in Windows.

Which version of Windows are you using? Go to Start > Control Panel > Display, and you should see something like this:

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Change to one of the higher settings to get things looking bigger.

100% is 96dpi

125% is 120dpi

150% is 144dpi

In Windows10 the dialog is different but the end result is the same. Which version of Windows are you using?

regards,

Martin.

posted: 9 Jan 2016 15:35

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Phil O
 
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Hi Martin

Thanks very much for that, I am using Win 7, changing to the medium setting has got everything right. You're a star yet again

Thanks

Phil
Last edited on 9 Jan 2016 15:36 by Phil O


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