Very simple question

[skidboots]

I'm afraid I don't know the answer.
How to put this. The information appearring on my screen is larger than it should be. That is, I have to slide the bar at the bottom to view the whole screen. When I "copy" "paste" everything on the right margin dissappears.

How do I make the whole page appear on my screen? What do I adjust?:confused:
Thanks

[George Hallam]

im not 100% sure what you are on about are you talking about the internet pages?

[skidboots]

yes. The internet pages are always to wide for my screen.

[jerkto]

If it's just internet pages and not your desktop & other programs being wide, then try View>Zoom or View>Text Size depending if you're using FF, I.E. or some other form of web browser.

If it includes your desktop and other programs, then it is probably your monitor settings and you can try adjusting them.


When I "copy" "paste" everything on the right margin dissappears.

This sounds really strange because it should be an isolated issue with programs such as word/adobe...etc and not be connected with your internet problem. i.e. Tampering with Word margins might make text stretch out to the right.

If none of the above help, I don't how if messing with Display>Settings>Screen resolution will do much good but you can try.

[mjc]

In your browser, a quick way to access the size setting is ctrl + to increase the size and ctrl - to decrease it.

Also, what type of monitor and what resolution is it set at?

[Orion]

The resolution thing is likely to be the cause (the presence of a "bar" to scroll with would indicate that), but I would also wonder if things are confounded by a misalignment (sp?) of the picture on your screen-the copy paste issue reminds me of that kind of problem.

Do you have an LCD? and if so, there should be a button to auto-adjust the picture. press it, and see if that helps any with the copy paste margin thing.

[skidboots]

Okay. A) I'm using windows ME
B) monitor is NEC Multisync 3V
C) "View" exists, "Zoom" does not.
D) My original post, Jerkto,and MJC replies, fit nicely on the screen.
Orion's is too wide to read in without sliding the bar.

[jerkto]

Okay.
C) "View" exists, "Zoom" does not.

Zoom should be in the dropdown once you click view (FF). Or Text Size should be in the dropdown (I.E.)

Okay. A) I'm using windows ME
D) My original post, Jerkto,and MJC replies, fit nicely on the screen.
Orion's is too wide to read in without sliding the bar.

Orion's Location info under his join date must be the reason. Can we assume this only happens on your internet? If it is, it's probably got to do with whatever internet browser you're using. Somewhere in the settings.

[jerkto]

I'm 90% sure what I suggested earlier would fix your problem:

Change to a smaller text size (Internet explorer) or zoom out (ctr+- in firefiox) or something like it in Oprah or whatever.

I'm pretty sure I managed to screw up my browser to make it look like yours when I zoomed in.

[Paul Komski]

With Web Pages much depends on the original Web Designer because elements can quite easily "spill over" to the right. It happens when designers using displays with a large resolution forget that not all users will have the same settings. If this happens a lot with Web-Pages that you view then increasing your resolution, if possible, should help a great deal. I suspect there could be other fixes using a Web Proxy. It isn't just a matter of changing text sizes - all elements, especially graphics and tables or other containers, that have been given a fixed width and not a percentage of width etc are more prone to this.

[mjc]

And the OS is ME, with probably IE 5.x...not a great combo, these days.

I would suggest giving FireFox a try...it renders 'modern' web pages a lot better than IE does. Up until a couple of months ago, my in-laws ran ME with FF...so I know that FF 2.xx still works with ME.

[Paul Komski]

Orion's is too wide to read in without sliding the bar.
Quite an interesting observation on refection. The only element that I can see in that post that might cause that effect is the:
Location: My home is by my Wife's side...otherwise, You can generally expect to find me in Minnesota... and which would appear to have a fixed width; the usual cause of such spill-overs.

Just what screen resolution is your system currently using?

[skidboots]

I believe Paul Komski has this problem nailed. However, I have no idea what resolution is or how I control it. .

[Paul Komski]

Right click on an empty area of Desktop and choose Properties and from there go to the Settings Tab. The Screen Resolution and the Color Quality values should show up. Try increasing the resolution slider and click Apply. If the screen goes black and you get no prompts just wait 15 seconds and the settings will revert. If you cannot increase the resolution or the value that you try to set wont stick you may need to install the correct or updated drivers or get a better video card. If for some reason you are running in basic VGA mode (the least pretty but most reliable) then it looks as if you dont have the correct drivers functioning. So then you would need to check the Adapter name/type under the Advanced settings or under Display Adapters in Device Manager, which you can open by entering devmgmt.msc into the run box.

Screen Resolution is measured in "pixels" and to put things simply the more pixels your display can show the greater your resolution will be and the more you will be able to see on it. Of course since it is more of the same thing - then "that thing" will be diminished in size but the point is that the screen is now capable of holding much more graphical information.

[jerkto]

If none of the above help, I don't how if messing with Display>Settings>Screen resolution will do much good but you can try.

skidboots, if you haven't trying tweaking your screen resolution already....:mad: ....

Why does it take two threads to get somebody to do something? Could have saved us all a lot of trouble with all the following posts =((

[Paul Komski]

jerkto - I have to say you can get a little bit irritating. You should note that my post was in direct response to "However, I have no idea what resolution is or how I control it" in the preceding post so your additional comments were I think unnecessary. I have already noted your general enthusiasm but some responses do need to be tempered.

[jerkto]

Please read my comment. I was not questioning your reply. Don't know why I was able to anticipate this, but here's my already-prepared answer:

If it was the other way around, how would you have felt? An honest opinion please.

And I explicitly showed a step-by-step of how to control screen resolution. Anyway, moving on. No hard feelings I hope.

[Orion]

You know, something else occurred to me; Skidboots may not have any other resolution options. The most common reasons I've seen for a low resolution (other than manually setting it) are

-- either no video driver installed (in which case, there's no greater resolution than 800X600) or
--a new video card driver installed (in which case the default is 800X600).

Skidboots: First, have you had a chance to try to change your resolution? If so, did you have other options? your monitor should be able to do up to 1280X1024...

If not, you may have to install video drivers. we can help with that as well; just let us know.

That being said, a general note about changes that affect your monitor: If you make a change and your screen goes blank, don't panic, and don't hit anything. After 15 (or 30? I don't remember the exact number offhand) seconds, it will timeout and return to your original video settings. If you were to hit enter or escape, you would likely cancel the timeout and then have to boot in safemode to restore your video to something your monitor can display.