Questions tagged [display-settings]
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Why set more bits per channel than the screen supports?
AMD CCC has a "preferred color depth" option that has BPC (Bits Per Channel) values of 8 and 10 and 12. I've set it to the least BPC in order to try to increase fps rendering. (I suspect the screen is ...
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Can scrollbars be made visible in Adobe Reader XI?
Due to some reason*, I would need to display vertical and horizontal scrollbar in Adobe Reader XI. (My installed version is 11.0.10.)
I think I checked all preferences and did not find way to turn ...
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Monitor turning off triggering password prompt on Windows 8
I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro on a laptop. As soon as the laptop's display turns off, the computer requires me to enter a password to log back in. How can I prevent the display timeout from requiring a ...
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how to change adobe reader default Page Display?
When I read a document in Adobe Reader, it's always in Two Page Scrolling.
So I want that to be the default Page Display setting.
Instead of Single Page View.
Path: View -> Page Display -> Two Page ...
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What Causes Windows 7 Display To Dim While Keyboard and Mouse Are Active?
I am working with two Windows 7 desktop computers, both of which have a unique problem I have not seen before. (To reiterate, these are not laptop computers; they have no battery and hence no battery ...
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I'm having trouble getting my computer to save (multi) display settings
Dell 7010
Win XP SP3
NVIDIA Force 210 graphics card
2 monitors
My sporadic problem:
I have 2 monitors with my display set up as an extended desktop (horizontal span).
Every once in a while when I ...
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Adaptive brightness cannot be disabled in Windows 8.1
I am battling with adaptive brightness on my laptop. It just cannot be disabled. I have it turned off in Windows power settings, Intel Graphic Control Panel but without any success. As soon as I ...
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Adjusting brightness and contrast on an ASUS monitor?
I feel really silly having to ask this but I can't figure out how to use the brightness and contrast buttons on my ASUS VS247H monitor. The buttons are clearly labeled but they don't seem to do ...
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Opera crashes when I open "Settings"
I'm using the latest version of Opera ( 26.0.1656.24 in german) on a Win7 32-bit system. It runs fine, except when I open the Settings Tabs, then it crashes after 1-2 seconds without any error message....
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View on main monitor content of second distant monitor
Having main monitor, and a second monitor (HD TV) situated on a considerable distance from main PC.
Is there any way/tool to see on the main monitor (maybe in small window) the content of second ...
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Windows Scaling Algorithm
When Windows scales a window the result is foggy (shown here: Text is blurry on normal-DPI external display with Windows 8.1 and high-DPI laptop display ). What algorithm does Windows use to do ...
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2010 Outlook settings
Every morning when I open Outlook my mail options are reset, specificially my signnature fonts AND (the most irritating) in Advanced View Settings: Messages under "Group By" the "automatically group ...
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Laptop Brightness dims when charger is unplugged(no solution)?
Hello yesterday i bought DELL Inspiron 15 (3542) win 8.1. And noticed that if charger is plugged on, screen becomes brighter, and after unplugging dimmer. Of course i tried adjust screen brightness, I'...
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How can I force letterboxing on my display?
What I want to do:
I want to put vertical letterboxes on the sides of my widescreen display to run a 4:3 resolution while maintaining the native pixel-for-pixel aspect ratio and scaling: my display ...
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Terminal across two Monitors
I have two 24" Monitors connect to my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
For some purposes it would be helpful to maximize my Terminal over both Monitors as one big Window.
I can drag a window larger with the mouse, ...
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How do I re-position the displayed image on my laptop?
I want to re-position the display on my ASUS K53SM laptop's screen because I somehow managed to damage some portion of it (and I don't want to spend on this laptop for the time being).
Please refer ...
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Windows doesn't save the -turn off the display- time
I remember setting once the -turn off the display- to 1 minute.
Ever since, I've been trying to change that to 10 or 5 minutes and the system actually does keep this change... until I reboot or ...
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Windows 7 laptop fonts DPI is too big breaking certain applications
I have just installed windows 7 on a laptop and the fonts seem to be doing weird things, Ive adjusted the DPI back to 100% (was 125% by default) however certain applications (old delphi programmed ...
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Monitor "out of range" error when entering Windows 7 safe mode
I have a working Windows 7 Professional installation on my computer that seems to be working properly.
There are some changes I'd like to make to the system with an administrator account, and my ...
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Why do laptop screens flicker during video mode changes? [duplicate]
Changing the display mode (resolution and/or refresh rate) causes the screen to flicker or go dark for a few seconds before the image stabilizes. At least this happens on all laptops and desktops I've ...
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Is there a way to specify separate scaling factors for multiple monitors in Windows 8.1? [duplicate]
I have a Samsung Series 7 Ultra laptop with the latest update to Windows 8.1. I am using an additional digital monitor with the same nominal resolution (1080p) as the laptop, but much larger in size (...
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How do I choose which font Chrome uses for cursive and fantasy?
How can I tell Chrome which font it should display when a website has cursive or fantasy for a font family?
Firefox has abouf:config settings for it.
Other browsers, like SeaMonkey and older Opera ...
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Can we enable 1920 X 1200 HiDPI mode on OS X 10.9.2?
with RDM, we can enable a number of displays such as the Retina 15" or Retina 13" to do the 1920X1080 HiDPI but with some screen area blacked out. Can we enable 1920 X 1200 by overriding some system ...
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Modifying TV setting universally via PC
I was thinking of developing a program for Windows that can change TV settings. Where I work, we change TV settings often and on MANY tv's and I was wondering if it would be possible to enter data ...
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Second monitor stuck in wrong orientation
I accidentally pressed Ctrl + Alt + Down (Windows 7) when a second display was connected and flipped all the screen orientations. I quickly pressed Ctrl + Alt + Up to restore it but the second monitor ...
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Laptop screen turn blank after windows 8 boot logo
I recently installed Windows 8 on a Dell Inspiron (N5110) laptop which had been previously running Windows 7 Ultimate. After the installation the laptop restarted, displaying the windows 8 logo ...
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ASUS PB238Q Color RGB keeps changing
Following on from my previous question. Going into the. Menu I noticed that 2 of the colors were set to 100, whilst one was set to 0 hence the yellow tint. Anyway, I set all three colours to 100, ...
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ASUS PB238Q Yellow tint
I bought the said monitor around 5 weeks ago and have been using it with a blue rigger DVI cable with no problems.
Anyway, tonight I got in from work and used the PC for around an hour, everything ...
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What does the IE "Display intranet sites in compatibility mode" option do? Why is it a default in IE?
What does the "Display intranet sites in compatibility mode" option in IE mean exactly? Why would it be the default?
I design and develop with Mac vs PC so I am not particularly savvy when it comes ...
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DPI Settings on Windows 2008 Server
Is my assumption correct that changing the DPI setting on a Windows 2008 will affect all users? (The setting is per machine).
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