My monitor is a widescreen but the only widescreen setting it supports is 1360x768. but that makes everything a bit too small for me.
Is there a way I can keep it set to that and yet have everything display as if its set lower?
Windows (XP) has an option to make fonts larger (Display Properties > Appearance > Font Size), which will increase the size of a few things. Is that what you're looking for?
I want more than just Fonts I want everything to display as if it where set to a lower setting
I believe you can customize a few more things such as the size of icons when you view folders and such, but I doubt there is a simple quick solution to make one resolution simulate another... Because, you know, if you want a certain resolution you should use that instead of having another one simulate it.
But of course, we're now in the LCD era where monitors have native resolutions and look like crap when using anything other than it, so I guess there isn't much you can do. Next time try the monitor before you buy it, to make sure you are comfortable with it.
this is not the only reason I would like to but part of the problems is I accidentally installed IE 8, and I guess my GPU dose not get along with something that dose because it makes everything fuzzy even after you uninstall it(not just IE EVERYTHING). To fix that have to I do a windows reinstall. so also if there is a way to fix that without doing so I would like to know.
Web browsers can always be zoomed in and out.
What kind of monitor is it? Most 1360x768 pixel widescreens that I've seen are TVs, and TVs tend to be big. Or is your monitor a 1024x600 panel in a netbook?
Does zooming in a web page also zoom in objects rendered by plug-ins (e.g. SWF, Java)?
As for the fuzziness, try Display Properties > Appearance > Effects and see if playing with the ClearType setting does anything.
yeah its a TV, a 32 inch, but still a bit on the small side for me when set so high. I'll try that thingy you mentioned when I get home.
edit:setting it to cleartype makes it fuzzyer
some of the"High contrast appearance scheme" setting do what I want kinda. Is there a way I can customize one of these?
If you click on the "Advanced" button, you can select many items and set theirs sizes.
I actually found a real solution for this wile I was screwing around tonight.
Under Display Properties in the settings tad, click the advanced button, then under Display increase the DPI settings. this combined with used large icons and extra large text seems to work ok although still flawed