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Martha Davidson
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:01 pm    Post subject: Distorted screen Reply with quote
Hello All

I have a Gateway 7320GZ laptop with a 15.4 inch widescreen LCD. The problem
is every time I open photographs, they are terribly distorted so that the
width is way too much. The screen is set to 1024 *768. It doesn't matter
which software I open photos in ... Irfanview,MS Photoeditor, anything.

Is this a funtion of the wdescreen, or is there a way to fix this?

Thanks.

Martha Davidson
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Ben Myers
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:14 am    Post subject: Re: Distorted screen Reply with quote
I rather doubt that 1024x768 is the optimum resolution for a wide-screen LCD
notebook. Check the specs on the computer, change the resolution to the
optimum, and the distortion will go away.

The problem is caused by the graphics driver stretching each pixel to make it
wider, in effect, stretching the 1024 pixel width to something wider like 1280.

.... Ben Myers

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:01:14 -0400, "Martha Davidson"
<pleasepostbacktogroup@nowhere.nowhere> wrote:

Quote:
Hello All

I have a Gateway 7320GZ laptop with a 15.4 inch widescreen LCD. The problem
is every time I open photographs, they are terribly distorted so that the
width is way too much. The screen is set to 1024 *768. It doesn't matter
which software I open photos in ... Irfanview,MS Photoeditor, anything.

Is this a funtion of the wdescreen, or is there a way to fix this?

Thanks.

Martha Davidson
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Jeff
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:27 am    Post subject: Re: Distorted screen Reply with quote
1024x768 shouldn't be the correct resolution for a widescreen display, should
it?

I would think it should be something like 960x600 or 1280x720, or 1600x900 if it
will go that high..

Jeff



"Martha Davidson" <pleasepostbacktogroup@nowhere.nowhere> wrote:

Quote:
Hello All

I have a Gateway 7320GZ laptop with a 15.4 inch widescreen LCD. The problem
is every time I open photographs, they are terribly distorted so that the
width is way too much. The screen is set to 1024 *768. It doesn't matter
which software I open photos in ... Irfanview,MS Photoeditor, anything.

Is this a funtion of the wdescreen, or is there a way to fix this?

Thanks.

Martha Davidson
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Tom from WI
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:44 am    Post subject: Re: Distorted screen Reply with quote
I have a Gateway laptop with a 15" wide screen LCD (13" wide x 8" high). My
screen setting is 1280 x 800.
Tom
"Jeff" <jeffs210@NOSPAMsio.midco.net> wrote in message
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Quote:
1024x768 shouldn't be the correct resolution for a widescreen display,
should
it?

I would think it should be something like 960x600 or 1280x720, or 1600x900
if it
will go that high..

Jeff



"Martha Davidson" <pleasepostbacktogroup@nowhere.nowhere> wrote:

Hello All

I have a Gateway 7320GZ laptop with a 15.4 inch widescreen LCD. The
problem
is every time I open photographs, they are terribly distorted so that the
width is way too much. The screen is set to 1024 *768. It doesn't matter
which software I open photos in ... Irfanview,MS Photoeditor, anything.

Is this a funtion of the wdescreen, or is there a way to fix this?

Thanks.

Martha Davidson
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Martha Davidson
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Distorted screen Reply with quote
Thanks for the ideas. I will try them out.
Martha
"Martha Davidson" <pleasepostbacktogroup@nowhere.nowhere> wrote in message
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Quote:
Hello All

I have a Gateway 7320GZ laptop with a 15.4 inch widescreen LCD. The
problem is every time I open photographs, they are terribly distorted so
that the width is way too much. The screen is set to 1024 *768. It doesn't
matter which software I open photos in ... Irfanview,MS Photoeditor,
anything.

Is this a funtion of the wdescreen, or is there a way to fix this?

Thanks.

Martha Davidson
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Ben Myers
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Distorted screen Reply with quote
You can't believe everythibg you read, but one on-line review of the 7320GZ
stated that the screeen resolution was 1280x800. This would surely explain why
pixels were stretched at 1024x768... Ben Myers

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:27:21 -0400, "Martha Davidson"
<pleasepostbacktogroup@nowhere.nowhere> wrote:

Quote:
Thanks for the ideas. I will try them out.
Martha
"Martha Davidson" <pleasepostbacktogroup@nowhere.nowhere> wrote in message
news:xqYMg.11201$xk3.2082@dukeread07...
Hello All

I have a Gateway 7320GZ laptop with a 15.4 inch widescreen LCD. The
problem is every time I open photographs, they are terribly distorted so
that the width is way too much. The screen is set to 1024 *768. It doesn't
matter which software I open photos in ... Irfanview,MS Photoeditor,
anything.

Is this a funtion of the wdescreen, or is there a way to fix this?

Thanks.

Martha Davidson

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Martha Davidson
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:43 pm    Post subject: Looks better=Re: Distorted screen Reply with quote
Hi Ben,
I tried out that setting and it seems to work better.
Thanks very much...
Martha
"Ben Myers" <ben_myers_spam_me_not@charter.net> wrote in message
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Quote:
You can't believe everythibg you read, but one on-line review of the
7320GZ
stated that the screeen resolution was 1280x800. This would surely
explain why
pixels were stretched at 1024x768... Ben Myers

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:27:21 -0400, "Martha Davidson"
pleasepostbacktogroup@nowhere.nowhere> wrote:

Thanks for the ideas. I will try them out.
Martha
"Martha Davidson" <pleasepostbacktogroup@nowhere.nowhere> wrote in message
news:xqYMg.11201$xk3.2082@dukeread07...
Hello All

I have a Gateway 7320GZ laptop with a 15.4 inch widescreen LCD. The
problem is every time I open photographs, they are terribly distorted so
that the width is way too much. The screen is set to 1024 *768. It
doesn't
matter which software I open photos in ... Irfanview,MS Photoeditor,
anything.

Is this a funtion of the wdescreen, or is there a way to fix this?

Thanks.

Martha Davidson

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