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How to improve my Monitor setup
Due to my eyesight changing as I get older I thought replacing my main 19" monitor with a newer larger one would allow me to see text more clearly as I code.
A friend of mine advising a 24" ...
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What can cause an ultra-slow screen refresh in Windows XP?
I'm hoping that someone else has possibly encountered this before so that they understand what I'm describing.
My wife and I just moved to a new place and the movers haven't arrived with our stuff ...
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How to re-enable laptop display in Windows XP while blind
My father has a Lenovo S10 laptop. While on vacation, he connected it to an external monitor and disabled the laptop display with the Windows Display Properties Dialog. Before leaving, he disabled ...
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Computer not displaying anything
The computer in question worked last week. It's brand new, never been connected to the internet, up-to-date parts, etc.
Last week, I installed some 3D software on it, then shut it down and waited for ...
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Do I have a bad video card?
I think this is the right spot to post this question. Please don't flame me if it isn't. My work computer is a Dell Prescision M6400 laptop. I use the VGA output to a second monitor. There is ...
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How to output to S-Video on Windows XP in single-monitor mode (clone display)?
I am using an IBM ThinkPad T30 running Windows XP. It is connected to a TV system via S-Video output.
Windows is currently set up in multi-monitor mode with monitor 2 being output to S-Video. However,...
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What can cause two "identical" setups of IE8 and XP to display things differently?
This has been baffling me for a while. Of the machines I use in visiting Stack Overflow, two of them are machines with the same setup: Dell with Windows XP with IE8. Since they were issued to me by ...
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1/4 of screen doesn't refresh at all on Windows XP?
One of the teachers at the school I support has a Dell Latitude E5500 and about 3/4 of the desktop shows just fine, but the right 1/4 shows whatever was on there last, like it's not refreshing (yes I ...
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Why are applications slowing down on the computer's second monitor?
Here's an interesting one.
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I have a user on Windows XP who is running a web application inside IE8. She has two monitors plugged in via DVI cables.
When she is working the the browser on ...
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Desktop: samsung syncmaster 933 drivers required
Any idea where I can find Win XP drivers for Samsung syncmaster 933?
tried the samsung site but no joy.
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iMac 24" as a monitor for windows laptop
The company I work for are about to give me a windows laptop, a thinkpad x200, so that I can work from home. It will have a displayport for an external monitor via a docking station. I have a 24" iMac,...
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Screen flicker -> Severe System Slowdown?
I'm using a Dell D830 laptop, and over the last few weeks it's been developing a very irritating screen flicker problem that leads to the system slowing down almost to the point of unusability.
At ...
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Switch to Monochrome
Is it possible to switch the display mode under Windows to monochrome somehow? You know, like when you select 'Turn off' in Windows XP and it makes it all grayed out - so I need this but for life.
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Add padding to display
I know this one is a bit weird.
I need to scale down the display on my monitor like the example below:
Normally, this could be done with some adjustments in monitor's OSD, but there is no OSD on my ...
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Virus ridden computer freezes on startup - can't access safe mode
Someone whom I love but who cannot be trusted with a live internet connection downloaded a particularly nasty virus that in turn downloaded a variety of unknown other viruses onto my home computer. ...
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