Windows Screen Resolution Question

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#190097Mon 23/06/08 09:54		I have just installed a screen/keyboard/mouse switch so that I can use my home computer and work computer with the just the one screen, keyboard and mouse. I have a problem and I would appreciate your suggestions. The screen resolution is the same on both computers (1280 by 1024), but everything seems larger on the work computer so less fits on the screen - e.g. the desktop shows eight rows of icons whereas the home computer shows twelve. If I display the same picture on each computer the picture areas comes up the same - so it feels like the work computer is set to 'large print'. Please could you help me find which setting to change. Many thanks.
finalfrontier1976Mon 23/06/08 10:11		I think you right click on the desktop and click "preferences". Or go via Control Panel into "Display".
finalfrontier1976Mon 23/06/08 10:11		It may be personalise on Vista.
#190097Mon 23/06/08 12:11		I am running Windows XP. The display setting on both computers is 1280 x 1024.
finalfrontier1976Mon 23/06/08 12:13		Hmm can you right click on the screen and choose icon size? I'm on Vista and you can do it on that.
#190097Mon 23/06/08 12:37		Thanks for your suggestions so far. I have set icon size to small, but the icons are just an easy way of explaining how it looks. Another example would be that with Outlook I can't see as many email messages on my screen at a time - only 30 fit on my work computer where as there are 42 on my personal computers. A further example is - in notepad ten lines of text are 36mm high from my home computer, but 47mm from my work computer. Everything just appears big and I can't fit so much on the screen.
#190097Mon 23/06/08 13:21		I have found the setting that needed changing. It was the DPI - I must have set that to large when I first got the work laptop. In Display Properties/Settings/Advanced/General I changed it from Large Size (120DPI) to Normal Size (96DPI) and that has solved the problem.

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