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bradfincham
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7th Jun 06 at 19:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Right my hard drive decided to fry itself on monday for no reason!

So it now has a 250gb maxtor jobby in here and they managed to save my pics, work and videos costing me a grand total of £175

So i turn the pc on tonight and its like an old windows 95 setup, i change that to xp however its still not right!

LOTS of my font for files, web address bars etc are all smudged at the top and bottom, looks shit and does my eyes in, messed around with settings of display with no luck - any ideas??

Also when you click control panel you used to get a list of icons such as display network connections and a box on the left with file properties and a few shortcuts down the side, thats also gone??

Any ideas would be much appreciated!
PaulW
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7th Jun 06 at 19:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
so the display is blurred top & bottom of the screen??

are you using a TFT or CRT monitor?
bradfincham
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7th Jun 06 at 20:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
19" flat screen with a Radeon 128mb graphics card

its top or bottom of words

such as file names, on here for example, desktop icons
PaulW
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7th Jun 06 at 20:03   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
is your display set to the native res of the tft, ie, 1280x1024?? or 1024x768??
bradfincham
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7th Jun 06 at 20:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote


see whats happened to the bit on the left??



see the words, on the actual screen there a LOT blurrier
PaulW
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also try uninstalling then re-install the graphics card drivers
PaulW
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7th Jun 06 at 20:05   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
those screenshots look perfect here, its either your display settings/drivers or graphics card itself possibly overheating...
bradfincham
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7th Jun 06 at 20:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
those screenshots look perfect here, its either your display settings/drivers or graphics card itself possibly overheating...


The pc has been turned on for 5 minutes, never had a problem before, just since they installed windows its all gone like prehistoric

the letters are blurry and the top of say a B or a G its weird
PaulW
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7th Jun 06 at 20:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
well id start by lowering the resolution first, then try the latest drivers for the card
bradfincham
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Ive put the resolution on the highest and its cured it, but now all the icons etc are so bloody small

Paul any ideas how to get the edgebar on the control panel screen etc back??
bradfincham
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7th Jun 06 at 20:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Ha Ha i done that bit

I will live with the small icons etc for now

just the task of loading all them bloody programmes again
MarkW
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7th Jun 06 at 20:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
to cure the blurryness i would would playing around with refresh rates

[Edited on 07-06-2006 by MarkW]
bradfincham
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7th Jun 06 at 20:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ah right ok mines at 60hz at the moment
John
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7th Jun 06 at 21:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Refresh rates on an lcd. No.
Its been running at the wrong resolution.
You now have it set at native res which will look best.
Ian
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8th Jun 06 at 00:09   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Should be running at the native res of the monitor then if the icons are too small adjust that in the Windows setup.

Left bit you can turn on and off in config somewhere. Not sure.
John
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8th Jun 06 at 00:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
control panel, system, advance, performance options, visual effects and the option your looking for is use common tasks in folders.
Melville
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8th Jun 06 at 15:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by John
control panel, system, advance, performance options, visual effects and the option your looking for is use common tasks in folders.


Legend

Been wondering how to do this for ages on my laptop running XP Home

 
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