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My laptop screen stretched out. How to fix?

Oct 29, 2011 2:00AM PDT

I was playing a game on my laptop and somehow everything on my laptop screen stretched out: the game, my desktop - everything. My icons don't even all fit on my desktop anymore.

I tried changing the resolution but I'm pretty sure that its still set to the resolution it was at before. None of the other resolution settings fixed it either.

I thought maybe I could hold CTRL and scroll on my desktop screen and that might fix it. It made my icons even BIGGER. I tried scrolling the other way to make them smaller again, but it won't work! So now I have two problems!

If anyone knows how to fix this stretched out screen and huge icons on my desktop, I'd really appreciate it.

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Missing details but why not System Restore to before?
Oct 29, 2011 2:12AM PDT

It was just a few hours ago and since SR (system restore) won't touch our files, it's time to use it.
bob

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System restore incomplete
Oct 29, 2011 2:45AM PDT

I just tried doing a system restore to yesterday and a week ago. Each time, the laptop restarted but when it was starting up again, system restore said it could not restore to that point and the restoration was incomplete. Now what? Sad

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There are reasons for that.
Oct 29, 2011 2:48AM PDT

Again, very few details to work with. No make, model, OS, etc.

System restore failures plague folk that have Norton installed. Symantac needs to work on that so it pops up and announces it blocked it and how to unblock.
Bob

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System info
Oct 29, 2011 2:51AM PDT

Ahh, I understand now. Sorry...I am running Windows XP on a Toshiba Satellite Pro model U400. I do have Norton installed. Is there any way that I can just turn off Norton so I can do a restore? Or any other tips on how to fix the screen?

I don't understand why I was able to CTRL scroll to make my icons huge, but not the other way to shrink them.

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Link about norton
Oct 29, 2011 2:58AM PDT
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THANK YOU.
Oct 29, 2011 3:16AM PDT

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I disabled the product tamper setting and it restored to yesterday, fixing everything.

I really appreciate your help.

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You're welcome.
Oct 29, 2011 6:24AM PDT

Good to read this. Plus you now are a System Restore failure expert!