Hi. I am wondering if anyone knows what the majority of computer users in the planet are using for screen resolution. I have been on 800x600 since 1998. Now I got a new laptop and it's a widescreen. I had to go to 1280x800 to get the proper aspect ratio on photos viewed at fullscreen (f11). Everything of course is different (smaller). Surfing is distracting (different) because some web sites look better at 800x600. A lot of web sites (like computing.net) are good at 1024x768 (on my desktop lcd) if you increase the text view to large or largest. But a lot of web sites look a lot better in 800x600 because they don't fill out both left & right vertical sides of the monitor. So am I the only one who is changing resolution all the time? Some games look tiny at 1024x768 so I have to go back to 800x600 on them.

I am probably making a "mountain out of a molehill," but I never had this problem when I kept everything at 800x600. It's the laptop's fault! lol! I like the widescreen laptop because I use it for pictures and my camera takes pictures at 3008x2000. However I've always cropped them to 4 to 3 ratio so they fill out the monitor on my lcd (desktop) and look nice while xp my picture slideshow screensaver is playing.

I am just crazy worrying too much about this I know. It's just that I have 2 desktops, and a laptop now. I thought I would set the resolution on the desktops up to 1024x768 since the laptop is now always on 1280x800 as this would give me some continuity in the house (I thought) and that way I could get used to the higher resolution setting. But my wife uses one of the desktops and she yelled at me to "set it back" as this "little" change was just too devastating for her to endure.

Screen resolution. Such a simple, quick, easy little adjustment. Shouldn't be a big deal right? Why do little things make such a big earthshaking event when it comes to computer users? Why can't I adjust to change when it comes to computers?

If you know the answer, write a book about and I'll buy it.

James.

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It happens to us all as humans, some are just more resilient than others. On my regular destop with 1600 X 1200 rez, computing.net as with a host of other sites only take up less than half the vertical browser page space.

I eventually got creative and have actually gotten much better at multitasking by shrinking the unused brower window and using the available desktop space for other things or program that I run simuteanously.

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You could always resize your web-browser window...

To do this at the click of a button: Create a new bookmark or favorite, then edit its properties so that the target url is
javascript:(window.resizeTo(800,600));
You now have a bookmark/favorite for resizing your browser window.

See more bookmarklets from here

By the way--you might already know this--there are utlities that let you configure applications to run at a specific screen resolution.

Hello.

I always use the monitor's native resolution. It gives you the best possible view of the screen contents.

Then you can apply the above-mentioned recipes to obtain better results to your likings from web sites or other media.

Regards

suatcini

What is a monitor's native resolution? This laptop's monitor (widescreen) has a screen ratio of 1.6 to 1. My destop's have lcd screens with a 1.33333 to 1 ratio. When I plugged this laptop in it was set at the lowest resolution of 800x600. That gave photos an incorrect aspect ratio. All pictures and/or graphics looked short and fat. The other available settings are 1024x768, 1280x768, and 1280x800. So if you do the math, you can see that the only setting that will give me the correct aspect ratio is the highest - 1280x800.

Thanks for the replies all!

James.