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XP "AutoAdjust" resizing

by stevensonlc Jun 9, 2005 9:51PM PDT

I have Dell 4700 w/XP. Yesterday just as I sat down the system seemed to reboot showing a prompt "auto adjust" (or something to that effect. After reboot the desktop icons were all smaller; any home page is approx 2/3 size of screen, including smaller font.
Any idea what caused this and how do I get it back to normal operations.
Thanks for help.

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A couple of ideas worth checking......
by tobeach Jun 10, 2005 5:10PM PDT

1) sounds like someone or something (a program or game or?) has reset your display to a higher number. Example you may have been at 1024 X 768 and now are running at 1280 X 760 or? In XP> Control Panel>display icon>settings there should be a slider which says current. You can slide left for lower #'s (bigger display) or right for higher #'s (smaller icons & display). It will allow you to try a new setting and will ask you if you want to keep new setting or revert back to former.
Additionally if you click the advanced tab, at bottom, under compatability you could put a dot in the "ask me before change display settings" you could try ticking that in case some game wanted the different setting and didn't return to original after closing. This might send you a prompt requesting to change so you'd know which program it was.
Now for something completely different: You can probably Drag the edges of the displayed pages back to normal size and could check text size in "View" in top bar in case reduced to 90% or something. HTH ! Happy

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Auto Adjust
by Merl Priester Jun 11, 2005 2:48AM PDT

Is typical for LCD screens, they adjust to fit the Window to the exact edge of the screen. As noted in the previous post, if you were running 1024x768 on a 17" LCD (most use a native 1280x1024) the when the resolution jumped to 1280x1024 the screen would adjust and things would get smaller, and yes documents an dweb pages would take up less of the screen.

Right click the desktop go to the Settings TAB and look for the resultion your running at, set it to a lower resolution, try 1024x768 or 800x600 and see which one you want. Color depth should be 16 bit or 32 bit nothing lower if it is on 256 it needs to go higher.

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