Have a friend with a Toshiba laptop running Vista.

Want to change screen resolution.

Open Control Panel.

Can't find Display icon.

Where do I go from here?

Lew

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in news:4ee99320$0$1635
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Have a friend with a Toshiba laptop running Vista.

Want to change screen resolution.

Open Control Panel.

Can't find Display icon.

Where do I go from here?

Lew


I'm running Windows 7 and don't have a Vista machine around to check, but
what happens when you open the start menu and type in "display" or
"resolution"?

That reminds me... The idiots responsible for control panel hid
everything to make it "easier to use" or something. Somewhere on the LH
side, there should be an option to switch to classic view or similar.
(Sorry, I'm going by memory.)

Puckdropper
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On 15 Dec 2011 06:39:39 GMT, Puckdropper
I'm running Windows 7 and don't have a Vista machine around to check, but
what happens when you open the start menu and type in "display" or
"resolution"?

Don't know about Vista, but in Windows 7, you can left click on the
desktop and select screen resolution. In control panel you can select
display.

On 12/15/2011 4:01 AM, Dave wrote:
On 15 Dec 2011 06:39:39 GMT, Puckdropper
I'm running Windows 7 and don't have a Vista machine around to check, but
what happens when you open the start menu and type in "display" or
"resolution"?

Don't know about Vista, but in Windows 7, you can left click on the
desktop and select screen resolution. In control panel you can select
display.

I think you meant to say right click the desk top.

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:10:32 -0600, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
I think you meant to say right click the desk top.

Yup. Guess I shouldn't offer solutions at 0400 in the morning.

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
b.com...
Have a friend with a Toshiba laptop running Vista.

Want to change screen resolution.

Open Control Panel.

Can't find Display icon.

Where do I go from here?

Lew




Right click on a blank area of the screen. Select "Personalize". Select
"Display Settings". Adjust to suit. Just checked on my HP running Vista Home
Premium.

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On 12/15/2011 1:26 AM, Lew Hodgett wrote:
Have a friend with a Toshiba laptop running Vista.

Want to change screen resolution.

Open Control Panel.

Can't find Display icon.

Double-click the "Personalize" icon. You'll get a new window with 7 or 8
choices; the last one is "Display Settings".

Lew Hodgett wrote:
Have a friend with a Toshiba laptop running Vista.

Want to change screen resolution.

Open Control Panel.

Can't find Display icon.

Where do I go from here?

Lew

Right click desktop
Click on "Properties"
Click "Settings" tab

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Laptops come with a hardware resolution built-in. If you change the
video resolution different from that you get less clarity or a virtual
PITA screen that you have to "slide around" It should already be set
for that unchangeable hardware resolution.


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"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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Have a friend with a Toshiba laptop running Vista.

Want to change screen resolution.

Open Control Panel.

Can't find Display icon.

Where do I go from here?

Lew

On 12/15/11 8:38 AM, m II wrote:
Laptops come with a hardware resolution built-in. If you change the
video resolution different from that you get less clarity or a virtual
PITA screen that you have to "slide around" It should already be set for
that unchangeable hardware resolution.

While partially right, not always:
1) Upgrade the OS, you will most likely have to change it back.
2) Some Video Driver updates, again..sometimes, but not always
3) **** happens (it is Windows after all)

And yes, just to re-iterate some previous comments, right click on the
desktop-properties, you'll find it.
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:26:42 -0800, "Lew Hodgett"
wrote:

Have a friend with a Toshiba laptop running Vista.

Want to change screen resolution.

Open Control Panel.

Can't find Display icon.

Where do I go from here?

Lew



See:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...een-resolution
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Buffalo, NY - USA

In article m,
Lew Hodgett wrote:
Have a friend with a Toshiba laptop running Vista.

Want to change screen resolution.

Open Control Panel.

Can't find Display icon.

Where do I go from here?

Lew




To your local Arco gas station?

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On 12/15/2011 4:07 PM, Larry W wrote:
In aweb.com,
Lew wrote:
Have a friend with a Toshiba laptop running Vista.

Want to change screen resolution.

Open Control Panel.

Can't find Display icon.

Where do I go from here?

Lew




To your local Arco gas station?

+100

On 12/14/2011 10:26 PM, Lew Hodgett wrote:
Have a friend with a Toshiba laptop running Vista.

Want to change screen resolution.

Open Control Panel.

Can't find Display icon.

Where do I go from here?

Lew





to dell dot com and buy a real computer. With something besides vista.

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On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:25:23 -0800, Steve Barker wrote:

Where do I go from here?

Lew

to dell dot com and buy a real computer. With something besides vista.

Linux perhaps? Certainly not NT :-).

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Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:25:23 -0800, Steve Barker wrote:

Where do I go from here?

Lew

to dell dot com and buy a real computer. With something besides
vista.

Linux perhaps? Certainly not NT :-).

Not Linux either. Linux is a knock-off of a 50-year old operating system
designed by a money-losing division of your local telephone company. As of
today, it runs about 2% of the world's computers and most of those are in a
parent's basement.

On 12/19/2011 06:28 AM, HeyBub wrote:
Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:25:23 -0800, Steve Barker wrote:

Where do I go from here?

Lew

to dell dot com and buy a real computer. With something besides
vista.

Linux perhaps? Certainly not NT :-).

Not Linux either. Linux is a knock-off of a 50-year old operating system
designed by a money-losing division of your local telephone company. As of
today, it runs about 2% of the world's computers and most of those are in a
parent's basement.



....and it lacks the wide variety of anti-virus programs available on
windows.


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On 12/19/2011 8:58 AM, Doug Winterburn wrote:
On 12/19/2011 06:28 AM, HeyBub wrote:

Not Linux either. Linux is a knock-off of a 50-year old operating system
designed by a money-losing division of your local telephone company.
As of today, it runs about 2% of the world's computers and most of those are
in a parent's basement.

...and it lacks the wide variety of anti-virus programs available on
windows.

It also lacks the urgent need for them.

In article ,
says...

Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:25:23 -0800, Steve Barker wrote:

Where do I go from here?

Lew

to dell dot com and buy a real computer. With something besides
vista.

Linux perhaps? Certainly not NT :-).

Not Linux either. Linux is a knock-off of a 50-year old operating system
designed by a money-losing division of your local telephone company. As of
today, it runs about 2% of the world's computers and most of those are in a
parent's basement.

My local telephone company was Southern New England Telephone and had
nothing to do with the development of operating systems. However if
your view of Bell Labs is that it was "a money-losint division of your
local telephone company" then I don't care what the problem is, you are
part of it.

J. Clarke wrote:
In article ,
says...

Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:25:23 -0800, Steve Barker wrote:

Where do I go from here?

Lew

to dell dot com and buy a real computer. With something besides
vista.

Linux perhaps? Certainly not NT :-).

Not Linux either. Linux is a knock-off of a 50-year old operating
system designed by a money-losing division of your local telephone
company. As of today, it runs about 2% of the world's computers and
most of those are in a parent's basement.

My local telephone company was Southern New England Telephone and had
nothing to do with the development of operating systems. However if
your view of Bell Labs is that it was "a money-losint division of your
local telephone company" then I don't care what the problem is, you
are part of it.

Southern New England Telephone was, and is, an operating division of AT&T.
The company now does business as AT&T Connecticut.

Bell Labs never made a proft; it was an expense division.

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:28:48 -0600, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:25:23 -0800, Steve Barker wrote:

Where do I go from here?

Lew

to dell dot com and buy a real computer. With something besides
vista.

A REAL computer and DELL in the same sentance???

Linux perhaps? Certainly not NT :-).

Not Linux either. Linux is a knock-off of a 50-year old operating system
designed by a money-losing division of your local telephone company. As of
today, it runs about 2% of the world's computers and most of those are in a
parent's basement.

Vista?

WTF is Vista? Do you drive Studebaker car, too?

Experienced people don't touch Dell anymore.

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"Steve Barker" wrote in message
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to dell dot com and buy a real computer. With something besides vista.

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On 12/17/2011 6:42 PM, m II wrote:
Vista?

WTF is Vista? Do you drive Studebaker car, too?

Experienced people don't touch Dell anymore.

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"Steve Barker" wrote in message
...
to dell dot com and buy a real computer. With something besides vista.


LMAO! Ok, what do they touch? HP?? Har har...

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I always go to my local computer store and have them me one out of top
rated parts. They are usually cheaper and don't require "special"
drivers and o/s to install so when upgrade them it is actually
possible. When problems occur they fix it while I stand there,
typically and I don't need to speak Packi in order to discuss methods
or fixes. Mind you, the Chinklish can get pretty thick, sometimes.


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"Steve Barker" wrote in message
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On 12/17/2011 6:42 PM, m II wrote:
Vista?

WTF is Vista? Do you drive Studebaker car, too?

Experienced people don't touch Dell anymore.

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"Steve Barker" wrote in message
...
to dell dot com and buy a real computer. With something besides
vista.


LMAO! Ok, what do they touch? HP?? Har har...

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On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:39:48 -0800, Steve Barker
wrote:

On 12/17/2011 6:42 PM, m II wrote:
Vista?

WTF is Vista? Do you drive Studebaker car, too?

Experienced people don't touch Dell anymore.

-------------
"Steve Barker" wrote in message
...
to dell dot com and buy a real computer. With something besides vista.


LMAO! Ok, what do they touch? HP?? Har har...

Aren't Dells the Packard Hells of today?

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surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets
if you don't yell going through the door.
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On 12/18/2011 7:34 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:

Aren't Dells the Packard Hells of today?

Getting that way. I've been a big fan of Dell's XPS laptops for years,
but their XPS 15 I purchased two months ago is extremely disappointing
in fit and finish ... it is built like it came from HF, not kidding!

I have the old one and the new on side by side in my office ... the
difference in quality is glaring, and does not bode well for the future
of Dell.

Further proof that, with the rise of MBAthink, almost anything you buy
from an American corporation these days is, in a large measure, total,
unmitigated, ****.

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Subject

Right click on blank screen gets the problem solved.

Many thanks to all that replied.

BTW, same trick also works on XP.

Lew