Cannot reduce display resolution

My large expensive 21" crt went pop a couple of days ago. Got a reasonable
17" LCD but I cannot reduce the resolution on my vista machine to the range
my new monitor can display. Have tried the following:
Safe mode and changing
RDC from my XP machine
Installing TightVNC and changing
None of the above have worked. Hopefully someone can help. I want to be
able to access my Vista machine without RDC!!

Thanks in advance.

John

Have you tried right-clicking on the empty desktop, then personalise, then
changing your resolution settings?

"JohnRad" wrote:

> My large expensive 21" crt went pop a couple of days ago. Got a reasonable
> 17" LCD but I cannot reduce the resolution on my vista machine to the range
> my new monitor can display. Have tried the following:
> Safe mode and changing
> RDC from my XP machine
> Installing TightVNC and changing
> None of the above have worked. Hopefully someone can help. I want to be
> able to access my Vista machine without RDC!!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John