Display Auto-Detect?

Go to www.maximumpc.com and type Display Myths in the search box. Alot of the so called feature's are exagerrated to sell the monitor/tv.

Right-click on an empty spot of your desktop. Select Screen Resolution. Then ...

What Clifford says is spot on, most of the options for your display will be handled by the GPU drivers / software for your video card.

If something like a video game is displayed below the LCD monitor's resolution, the graphics card will stretch the game to fill the entire screen. Of course games can be set to NOT use the full screen... or set to use the same native resolution as your monitor.

What Cliff and Kougar are stating is true. ALL widescreen LCD monitors have a "native resolution" which they use. Their INF driver files tell the system and video card at which resolution to run.

It is NOT recommended to alter the resolution from the native resolution since it affects screen clarity, text rendering, web pages and so forth. Virtually all complaints I've ever seen regarding LCD monitors is after the user altered the resolution to one other than the recommended one.

Leave the monitor's settings at factory defaults and forget about it.

Equals: fifty-something year old brain fart!

In Spanish it would be: ¡Iguala año de cincuenta-algo pedo viejo de cerebro!

S.I.W. is available as a standalone application, so you don't have to install it. It just tells you a lot of information regarding your system, drivers, software, etc. An excellent little piece of software that nearly all ubergeeks keep on hand in case it's needed.



Hope this screenshot helps...

From the "Advanced Settings" you can click on the Driver tab and then do the driver update from there.

You started a new thread regarding the stretching of the screen. PLEASE REFRAIN FROM DOING THAT! If your earlier question wasn't answered then ask it again here. I am moving that thread to this one.

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Now this is my humble opinion, but... quite buying DELL!! It's crap and overpriced! I could go on and on about it as everyone other regular member here knows the horror stories I've told about DELL.
Also, you need to become more educated about how computers and their related hardware work. Buy a book, download an eBook, read it then study it, then read it again!!

Just to clarify, all LCD monitors, not just widescreen LCD monitors, have a native resolution.

Thanks clifford, because I was wanting to use the extra pixels.

-Edit- saw the next page.

Nibiru:

My questions don't warrant having to get as familiar with computer hardware as you want me to (not that I have the time for it anyway) and it's sad this had to reach the fourth page when my questions could've been answered within a few posts.

Also I wasn't aware Dell's so pricey. They have some laptops for under $500 and compare those to Apple laptops for instance which are priced as much as your average Sony Vaio. I didn't have horrible experience with Dell personally so sorry that yours was different. The worst thing about Dell in my experience was almost all their built in webcams in their laptops were faulty one way or another.

Also no, this is what Digerati said:

Nothing about getting there through right-clicking your desktop, and to answer your PM Dig on the other forum no, you still haven't specified where in the Control P. I would find the supported resolutions of the driver (if it did show them of course).

But, if right-clicking the desktop takes you to the Control Panel well then I'd understand if you're talking about W7, but remember this is an XP computer I'm asking about.

Where did I say right clicking the desktop? I don't believe I did. Yes I did. You just quoted it! The Control Panel Display applet. Reworded ever so slightly, the Display applet in Control Panel.

Depending on your view by settings (I keep mine at Large Icons), it may be buried under Hardware and Sound.

MJOLNIR you don't like the answers or don't take the time to read them. You also don't have the respect to limit your question to one forum at a time so I have had quite enough and I am closing this thread.

Learning a few things about computers AND people wouldn't hurt you any. You talk about not having the time, well nobody here gets paid to answer your questions so you might be a little more grateful and a lot less arrogant. I hope you get the answers you need above or in another forum, or if you had the time maybe run a search, but this is quite enough!

If you open another thread on this same topic in this forum it may be your last post here ever!