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New Laptop (not lapdog)

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CausticMick

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Just got a new laptop from Dell, widescreen, 17" Insperion 9300. The issue is that I can't figure out how to get the page to take up my whole screen. I feel like a dummy, but I'm actually technologically literate. But this sucks. For instance, I'll go to Yahoo and I'll get an 750 width right in the middle of my screen with 16 font. I tried to change the screen resolution, no luck. I changed the font but it bunches it up the words and becomes unreadable. Anyone had a simlar issue? Outside of movies, it seems the wide screen is useless because most pages come up short in length, err... width. Nevermind. :lol:
 
Sounds like you need to sign up for the HD Internet, which is set up to fit wider monitors. But really most webpages are sized to fit lower resolution monitors. Even at 1024 on my normal 15 inch laptop monitor Yahoo has over an inch of blank space on each side of the screen. I don't think a wide screen monitor is going to be much use with the Internet.
 
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Actually no it sounds to me that the video drivers are fubar. It should always stretch to fit the monitor. I have a 21" widescreen monitor at home and a 15.4" wide on my laptop.

Find out what vid card it has (probably an ati), go to their website, download latest drivers, see if that corrects it.

Edit: Are you using firefox or IE? Just curious, cause if you're usin firefox, it coul dbe some weird issue with it that I am unaware of. Does your desktop and everything display correctly?
 
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Our president got an IBM widescreen and had a hell of a time on some websites and with some browsers.
Like MAx said update the drivers and check your browser.
Have you tried looking at excel spreadsheets and word documents?
I imagine video plays widescreen fine?
 
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Mr. Incredible said:
Hey boys, thanks for your help. I'm using Firefox. I have about 4 inches of white space on each side. Maybe I should try IE. My card is a 256MB NVIDIA 6800.
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Wow Inc, that's the exact same laptop I use with the exact same video card, and I've never had problems. It has to be a faulty driver. Now I have a question for you. Do you ever have any mouse trouble? The damn "soft click" feature is giving me hell because it will sometimes think I've clicked and start highlighting everything...
 
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I am getting a little frustrated with Firefox. It seems slower loading and shuts down quite a bit.
Hey GD, try throwing it off of a 5 story building. The laptops may respond after a beating like you give them, but they go right back to their old ways after a while. That fall will stay in their mind for wuite a while. :lol:
 
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Mr. Incredible said:
I am getting a little frustrated with Firefox. It seems slower loading and shuts down quite a bit.
Hey GD, try throwing it off of a 5 story building. The laptops may respond after a beating like you give them, but they go right back to their old ways after a while. That fall will stay in their mind for wuite a while. :lol:
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Good idea...I'll keep it under advisement :wink2:


Tabbrowsing is the shit...and my firefox is just as fast, but not faster
 
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