fullscreen... isn't

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Adam Cadre

Fullscreen mode seems to have spontaneously busted on my computer.
Maybe it was an errant keystroke or something. In any event, here's
the deal. I have a Dell notebook with a 1600x1200 screen. Until a
day or two ago, fullscreen applications would cheerfully rescale
themselves to fill up that space. Now they take up a tiny rectangle
in the middle of the screen with a huge black border around them...
looks like 640x480. Any idea how I can unshrink my fullscreen apps?
 
Adam Cadre said:
Fullscreen mode seems to have spontaneously busted on my computer.
Maybe it was an errant keystroke or something. In any event, here's
the deal. I have a Dell notebook with a 1600x1200 screen. Until a
day or two ago, fullscreen applications would cheerfully rescale
themselves to fill up that space. Now they take up a tiny rectangle
in the middle of the screen with a huge black border around them...
looks like 640x480. Any idea how I can unshrink my fullscreen apps?
Click to expand...

At what resolution is the video card set? Control Panel|DISPLAY|SETTINGS.
Try the next lower step.
 
At what resolution is the video card set? Control
Panel|DISPLAY|SETTINGS. Try the next lower step.
Click to expand...

Okay, I tried that. It shrank my normal desktop to 1400x1050, so
it had a thin black border around it, but fullscreen mode remained
a tiny rectangle, 640x480 or so, with a huge black border around it.

I've discovered that this may not be an OS thing, though, as the
Dell screen at bootup is suddenly no longer filling the screen but
merely the tiny centered rectangle. (Hitting F2 for setup pulls up
a text screen that *does* fill the entire screen, though. Odd.)

Any tips on where to go from here would still be appreciated. I've
tried system restore and installing new video drivers, with no result.
 
Never mind - it's fixed. For those who encounter this problem in
the future, the solution was:

Control Panel
Display
Settings
Advanced
Nvidia Geforce
Flat Panel Display
 
hahahaha, thank you so much, been wrestling with this...

I also think I hit a stray key combo and wham, desktop shrank.

Here's the path I had to use to get there:

Control Panel
Display
Settings
Advanced
Displays
Panel
In Panel Attributes, check "scale image to panel size"

It worked! Woo hoo!
 
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