Help with Monitor Settings (Samsung SyncMaster 930b)

Just started with Vista on an Athlon 5200+ 64 X2 w/SyncMaster 930B. Trying
to setup monitor so that it's appearance looks like it did on Win2K (AMD
2100+) and Win98 (AMD 300?) for applications and topscreen. The current
appearance is very, very awful.

The monitor is a wide screen, 19" monitor. The icons are elliptical (longer
than wide) and too large, the text looks bad, and everything takes up way
too much space and ... I'm using the Samsung driver and my display settings
are 1280 x 768. I've tried to adjust the text and do other things to make my
web pages and Quicken look like they did under Win2k. No luck. I've tried to
fiddle with display settings and everything else that I can think of or
find. Can anyone tell me where to look or what to do so that I can adjust
the display output?

art

set resoultion to 1280x1024

"skidmarks" <aschwarz@acm.org> wrote in message
news:99FCBE1C-7428-4518-8262-D66084C4A53B@microsoft.com...
> Just started with Vista on an Athlon 5200+ 64 X2 w/SyncMaster 930B. Trying
> to setup monitor so that it's appearance looks like it did on Win2K (AMD
> 2100+) and Win98 (AMD 300?) for applications and topscreen. The current
> appearance is very, very awful.
>
> The monitor is a wide screen, 19" monitor. The icons are elliptical
> (longer than wide) and too large, the text looks bad, and everything takes
> up way too much space and ... I'm using the Samsung driver and my display
> settings are 1280 x 768. I've tried to adjust the text and do other things
> to make my web pages and Quicken look like they did under Win2k. No luck.
> I've tried to fiddle with display settings and everything else that I can
> think of or find. Can anyone tell me where to look or what to do so that I
> can adjust the display output?
>
> art

Do what sharpz said - the 930b is not a widescreen, so the 1280x768
resolution is just plain wrong.


"skidmarks" <aschwarz@acm.org> wrote in message
news:99FCBE1C-7428-4518-8262-D66084C4A53B@microsoft.com...
> Just started with Vista on an Athlon 5200+ 64 X2 w/SyncMaster 930B. Trying
> to setup monitor so that it's appearance looks like it did on Win2K (AMD
> 2100+) and Win98 (AMD 300?) for applications and topscreen. The current
> appearance is very, very awful.
>
> The monitor is a wide screen, 19" monitor. The icons are elliptical
> (longer than wide) and too large, the text looks bad, and everything takes
> up way too much space and ... I'm using the Samsung driver and my display
> settings are 1280 x 768. I've tried to adjust the text and do other things
> to make my web pages and Quicken look like they did under Win2k. No luck.
> I've tried to fiddle with display settings and everything else that I can
> think of or find. Can anyone tell me where to look or what to do so that I
> can adjust the display output?
>
> art