Screen resolution problems

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Are you using a laptop? This is a known limitation with some graphics
processes used in laptops (i.e. not being able to stretch a non-native
resolution to the screen's resolution).

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"Charlie" <Shyguy540X@aol.com> wrote in message
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>I right click on the desktop and select properties then
> settings in the display properties. I want to lower the
> screen resolution to make the icons bigger but whenever I
> move the arrow left in the screen resolution to this
> setting all it does is keep the same resolution but
> decreases the screen size so there is now a black boarder
> around it. I want it to stretch out to the full screen
> but everything is just larger. I have spent hours trying
> to fix this problem with no success. I think the problem
> is that I have a multiple monitor setting on as my
> primary dispay so turning this off might solve it but i
> dont know how. in the window above instead of showing one
> monitor there are two squares labelled one and two and i
> want only one primary monitor i think. If i select the
> second display which is the default monitor changing the
> resolution does nothing because the tick box stating
> whether it is the primary driver is not checked and it is
> blocked so i cant click it on. Somebody please help me.
> thankyou