I am trying to change the pixels on my computer in order for me to run a new program. I go into Display and change them then my computer asks for me to restart the computer, which I do but when it comes back on nothing has happened. I'm still in the original pixels. Please help.

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Hi Elizabeth.

When you change your settings click on the Advance button and there is an option 
to Apply new display settings without restarting, select this option and Apply. 
You will then see if the change makes any effect without doing a restart.

As for changing you display make sure you have the latest drivers installed for you 
video card. If you don't know what video card you are using then just right-click 
on My Computer and select Properties then Device Manager and look under Display Adapters. 
You can do a web search for this name to download the latest drivers.

One such place is Driver Guide

or the manufacturers web site.

Its a good point to check if you have the correct monitor drivers as well while you 
are on Driver Guide. People on here say that doesn't matter but it does on my computer.

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Keith Stanier wrote:
|[...]monitor drivers[...]
|People on here say that doesn't matter[...]

Keith hasn't been paying attention.  That is NOT what was said.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1178995888

What WAS said was that calling those files "device drivers" is INCORRECT.
Keith is still doing it and it is still INCORRECT.

New link to replace broken link in referenced post: 
cache of http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?page=cms


Elizabeth,
If your monitor is displaying at all,
it means that Windows previously accepted the ICM file;
there is nothing more that needs to be done with that *monitor*.

If the facts were different,
Windows *would* have pitched a fit about your *monitor*.

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I appologize for posting this without checking to see if it was previously posted. I'm not very computer literate and I'm trying to fix a problem on a computer that was given to my family and I, so that my autistic daughter could have a way to communicate with her grandparents back home. I guess I'll have to settle for frustration.

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I appologize, I reread the post and I thought I was being attacked. Thank you so much for your help. It must be my frustration getting to me. I'm still working on the problem and sorry again for the misunderstanding.

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You are trying to change the resolution or the bit depth, maybe both??  You can't 
change the pixels.  Pixels are the physical dots on the monitor's screen.

If Windows won't accept a new resolution or color depth, which is what the applications 
may demand to run, then you either have a driver issue with the video card, the monitor 
profile that Windows is using will not allow a higher resolution to be displayed, 
or the video card just doesn't have enough memory to give the application what it 
needs to run and thereby can't give you the needed resolution.  Can be a combo of 
all three...

Windows has generic monitor profiles that sometimes must be changed if say you were 
running a resolution of 640x480 or 800x600 and now want to run 1024x768 for example. 
 The manufacturer of the monitor may have included the profile and it can be installed 
into Windows, so that Windows knows how to address the monitor properly.

Both the video card and the monitor (and/or the monitor profile) must be capable 
of running the resolution you select or Windows won't change it.  If it is an old 
CRT monitor, it will display a full color depth (24/32 bit settings) so color depth 
isn't an issue for the monitor.  Older monitors do however have a resolution limitation. 
 Is this a CRT or an LCD monitor?

You need to know the maximum resolution that the monitor can display,  as well as 
what your video card can display.  Higher resolution and color depth takes more memory 
so sometimes you must lower one to achieve the other.  Just depends on what is more 
critical to the application.  In some instances, the video system/adaptor won't have 
enough memory to do either and the application won't run at all..







On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 2:47 pm, elizabeth wrote:

>I appologize, I reread the post and I thought I was  being attacked.  Thank you 
so 

>much for your help.  It must be my frustration getting to me.  I'm still working 

>on the problem and sorry again for the misunderstanding. 

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|I appologize, I reread the post and I thought I was  being attacked.
| elizabeth
|
Don't worry about that.  Keith gets up my nose sometimes.

|It must be my frustration getting to me.
|
Keep your chin up--you're not in *that* deep
...and remember that we *all* started at zero.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Illegitimi.non.carborundum  8-)
(Your *question* should actually have contained some form of a phrase like
"screen resolution", but we know where you're headed.)

I liked the first 80% of Keith's post.
Before anything else, do try the **without restarting** technique he posted.

Here's how I previously answered a similar query:
  **Not enough video resolution / Not enough colors**
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1141155982

If you've never had the higher capability,
you'll likely have to skip down to Trick 3
--which is the same direction in which Keith pointed you
WRT the driver for the video card (aka "display adapter").

You can think of a device driver
as a software adapto-kit between the hardware device and Windows.
Another way to think of it is as a star-shaped tip on your cake-decorator tool
so that the icing comes out of the squeeze-gizmo looking like you want it to.

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On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 4:48 pm, gewg_ wrote:
|Don't worry about that.  Keith gets up my nose sometimes.

Like wise. 

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Thank you for all of your help. I have a true love/hate relationship with computers. I love how much you can learn from them but I hate when they aren't being very nice and don't want to cooperate. Thanks again, Elizabeth

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