Screen resolution problems

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Hi Charlie,

You may want to increase the DPI settings to make objects bigger on the desktop. On the desktop properties dialog box,
flip to the settings tab and click advanced. On the general tab, increase the DPI from 96 DPI.

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"Charlie" <Shyguy540X@aol.com> wrote in message news:01d801c48ec0$4232ff80$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>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.