Hi Craig

My monitor allows me to change the position of the screen, so i can
move the screen around, but not shrink the screen so that it fits
horizontally.

THanks



On 27 Mar, 18:12, "Craig" <craigNOSPAMvandergr...@lllow.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Have you tried adjusting the monitors viewable settings and shrink the
> horizontal and then move it to the right position that you want?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Cheers
> Craig
>
> "Googs" <thegoogs...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1175005034.281436.69340@d57g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
>
> > Hi
>
> > I'm having major difficulties in getting my vista business laptop to
> > run correctly with my acer 1916w monitor (17" widescreen). I want to
> > use the acer as the main dispay and the laptop as the secondary one,
> > and i've configured vista to do just that. It works fine, except that
> > the dispay on the acer monitor is wrong, in that if i maximise a
> > window then the window stretches beyond the edge of the screen, so
> > that the right hand side of the window cannot be seen, only about 1cm
> > of it, so that i can barely see the edge of the close button. the
> > taskbar is fine, i can see all icons in that, and the display on the
> > laptop is fine too.
>
> > here are the settings (using the intel graphics media to control the
> > settings):
>
> > monitor 1 - acer 1916w
> > color - 3bit
> > screen resolution - 1440 x 900
> > refresh rate - 60 hertz
> > Aspect ration options - full screen (no border)
>
> > monitor 2 - hp 15" widescreen laptop screen
> > screen resolution - 1680 x 1050
> > rresh rate - 60 hertz
> > Aspect ration options - full screen (no border)
>
> > i've tried playing around with the settings but it's no use, i'm still
> > missing that 1cm to the right of the screen when i maximise a window
> > in the acer monitor. Also, i don't know if it's my imagination, but
> > the desktop icons and other icons and toolbars look lot bigger on the
> > acer monitor than they did when i ran the monitor off an xp machine.
> > Is it possible to change the size of toolbars and icons on the monitor
> > without changing it on the laptop screen?
>
> > Thanks.