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2000 Prof won't fill desktop
« on: September 16, 2006, 04:12:05 PM »
A friend brought me his laptop that had recently been reformatted with Windows 2000 Professional.  His major problem is that since reformatting, the screen that comes up, (like IE) will not fill the desktop.   It has a 2" border on all four sides.  I have tried adjusting everything except the Bios.  Restoring the registry won't help because the reformat was recent.

Any suggestion how to make the windows fill the screen?  The little boxes at the top right do nothing.

The other problem he had was getting his computer to print to file.  He doesn't have a printer, and he wanted to print to notepad, but it kept asking for a printer.

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    Re: 2000 Prof won't fill desktop
    « Reply #1 on: September 17, 2006, 05:54:43 AM »
    Do you mean it won't fill the monitor (and you get a black empty border round the screen?) or you can see the desktop around the Window? Hm that's odd if so. If it's a new format I'd be tempted just to reformat again.

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    Re: 2000 Prof won't fill desktop
    « Reply #2 on: September 17, 2006, 09:26:28 AM »
    Since the repair did he remember to re-install the video drivers ? ?

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    Re: 2000 Prof won't fill desktop
    « Reply #3 on: September 17, 2006, 10:18:41 AM »
    This is definitely connected to a resolution problem.  The display needs to be set to a higher resolution (after the drivers have been installed, as patio says).
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      Re: 2000 Prof won't fill desktop
      « Reply #4 on: September 17, 2006, 02:59:09 PM »
      Lowering thr resolution may help too.  :)

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        Re: 2000 Prof won't fill desktop
        « Reply #5 on: September 17, 2006, 04:10:37 PM »
        The way he describes the problem, to me it sounds like when he maximizes a window it does not fill all of the desktop, leaving a border of desktop around it, eg with icons and stuff. That's a very odd problem, hopefully he can elaberate.

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        Re: 2000 Prof won't fill desktop
        « Reply #6 on: September 18, 2006, 01:30:48 AM »
        Not as odd as you might think - this always happens with laptop displays that aren't running at their native resolution and which don't have "screen stretching" built in.
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