Ah, I need help...ok, so my sister played a computer game and it made everything on the computer to big. So I right clicked...went to properties and then went to whatever I needed to do to fix it. I only have 3 choices to change the screen resolution to. So I hadta choose between two big ones and one that seemed too small...so now my aol screen is smaller then it is normally and I have this big black bar on one side of my screen pushing everything over to the left, so I don't have a file menu. Help!

Tell me exactly what options you used.

I right clicked and then I went to properties and then I went to settings.

Try right clicking on the desktop, the click display modes and the go to true color and put that at 1024x728.

Whenever I go to 1024X728 I always get that black bar along the right of my computer screen. It's about a quarter inch thick and REALLY annoying. It pushes everything to the left causing me not to have the file menu. I'm ready to kill my computer. I think it's supposed to be set to 800X600, but it's always too big then and 1024X728 is always too small. Ahh, it's pissing me off.

did your sister just install the game? sounds like it may have messed with your video card/driver settings, have you tried a restart?

no, it's been installed for a while...and i've restarted 50 million times...stupid me, i should have restarted from the very beginning and not have messed around with it...grrr...anyways


i rechecked it and i found i have it set on 1024X768, and I don't know how to change it to 728 b/c i can't enter numbers in or anything, i have three choices, some other number 800X600 and 1024X768

Originally posted by Ewan's My Man
no, it's been installed for a while...and i've restarted 50 million times...stupid me, i should have restarted from the very beginning and not have messed around with it...grrr...anyways


i rechecked it and i found i have it set on 1024X768, and I don't know how to change it to 728 b/c i can't enter numbers in or anything, i have three choices, some other number 800X600 and 1024X768 is this a desktop or a laptop?

you are probably going to have to reinstall the video driver - what version of windows?

it's a desktop and it's windows 2000

how do you reinstall the video driver?


god, why are computers so frikin difficult?!?!

Originally posted by Ewan's My Man
it's a desktop and it's windows 2000 what kind of video card is it? the video card's drivers are what gives it the ability to display at different screen resolutions, so if your usual setting is NOT there it is a good sign that the driver is corrupted

i would just tell you to reinstall the driver, or go into safe mode and uninstall it and let Windows plug and play the correct driver, but not all machines are the same....

are there any manuals/disks/support info that came with it that could give you instructions to reinstall the driver properly?

Originally posted by robyrob
what kind of video card is it? the video card's drivers are what gives it the ability to display at different screen resolutions, so if your usual setting is NOT there it is a good sign that the driver is corrupted

i would just tell you to reinstall the driver, or go into safe mode and uninstall it and let Windows plug and play the correct driver, but not all machines are the same....

are there any manuals/disks/support info that came with it that could give you instructions to reinstall the driver properly?

well...i'm just gonna show what you wrote to my mommy tomorrow so i can have someone read it who actually understands that

Originally posted by Ewan's My Man
well...i'm just gonna show what you wrote to my mommy tomorrow so i can have someone read it who actually understands that there is a good chance that you just need to uninstall it, and let Windows reinstall it, but some cards are weird and you can screw it up if you dont do it the way they want you to

if you are still having a problem let me know tomorrow

Hmm..Black Bar at the right side?

I wanna try something crazy here. What type of *monitor* do you have?

ummm...a mitsubishi one...

Did you tweak w/ the sizing settings on your monitor?

Originally posted by Miss Vicki
Did you tweak w/ the sizing settings on your monitor?

i fooled around with different ones...if that's what you mean

Originally posted by Ewan's My Man
i fooled around with different ones...if that's what you mean

Not the resolution settings...But the ones that align your screen. You know, right below the screen itself, where there are a few buttons on it. Those ones. :)

Originally posted by Miss Vicki
Not the resolution settings...But the ones that align your screen. You know, right below the screen itself, where there are a few buttons on it. Those ones. :)

the only buttons i have are an exit button two control buttons, two adjust buttons and yea, that's it oh and a mute button...

Originally posted by Ewan's My Man
the only buttons i have are an exit button two control buttons, two adjust buttons and yea, that's it oh and a mute button...

Yep, that's the one...Have you messed around with them?

Originally posted by Miss Vicki
Yep, that's the one...Have you messed around with them?

*looks guilty* yes....

but after it got screwed up, like that's not what screwed it up in the first place...

Originally posted by Ewan's My Man
*looks guilty* yes....

but after it got screwed up, like that's not what screwed it up in the first place...

Awwwww! :mad:

Ah, I tried. :)

Originally posted by Miss Vicki
Awwwww! :mad:

Ah, I tried. :)

;) thanks

Start playing around with your monitor buttons, and try to push your screen back to centre.

Eventually, you SHOULD get a centred display.

Originally posted by Seth Thrasher
Start playing around with your monitor buttons, and try to push your screen back to centre.

Eventually, you SHOULD get a centred display.

what do you mean try and push it back to center?

There should be a Horizonal Positioning setting somewhere on your monitor, where, when you change the number, the picture moves left or right

I did finally get rid of the black bar...heh...using the buttons on my monitor...:blush:

Everything is stil ridiculously small, but it's better then before.

Told Ya :-P

-Master of Pushing the Buttons on the Monitor Since 1999...