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I have an error when opening an old video game on Virtual Machine. Error says 'Unable to initialize display. Width: 800, Height: 600, Depth: 32'
I want to play an old game through virtual machine, but when I click 'open', it comes up with an error saying, 'Unable to initialize display. Width: 800, Height: 600, Depth: 32'
I'm using Windows XP, ...
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Windows XP - screen turns off after X time
I have a Windows XP PC that's supposed to stay on without closing the screen etc. Even if the setting is set to never, after a while the screen shuts down no matter what I chose.
Any idea?
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Win XP Screen saver / power management not working
I have a PC running Win XP, and even though I have the power management set to turn off the monitor after 10 minutes, and I have the windows screen saver set up, many times they never kick in. I come ...
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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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Monitor sleep in Windows XP does not work. Is there an add on to force it?
I have an EEE box with XP Home and a DVI connected TFT, and it does not sleep the monitor. It only starts working after I go to the energy control panel and turn it off and on again. Then the timed ...
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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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Ugly font antialiasing
I have a problem with font antialiasing on a Windows XP PC. Example image (top half bad vs bottom half good taken on another XP box):
I'm using normal antialiasing (I don't like ClearType).
What ...
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Windows: emulate green CRT on modern LCD
I felt the old green phosphorous CRT very relaxing.
Is there any way to emulate the monotone green of a phosphorous CRT on modern LCD monitors?
Can I solve it coding a Windows theme or monitor ...
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Run monitor on 1440x900 resolution when native is 1920x1200
I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 running Windows XP. It has Intel 945GM graphics. When I bought the computer, I got it with a native resolution of 1920x1200. However, this resolution is far too small to ...
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Settings to rotate display by 90 degrees
A friend (I know how that sounds) has managed to rotate her desktop display by 90 degrees.
Right now she has had to physically rotate her monitor so that everything looks fine.
She says she does not ...
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How do I rotate the desktop on Windows XP?
My angel pressed some thing and after that the Windows screen has rotated. It has become vertical. I have restarted, but it still shows the same.
How to resolve this issue?
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Screen flicker(Yes, I already tried googling, I need an expert)
Okay, a little background, I am poor and I am using the same laptop for last 10 years using Windows XP for all my life however, I recently upgraded to Windows 7 when my lappy stopped working(2 weeks ...
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Weird picture quality using DVI
I have a Windows XP (yes, XP) desktop that has a NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT graphics card, using an LG W2042TQ (20 inch widescreen monitor ). I always had a kinda “weird” display on that computer—not ...
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How do I stop panning on a monitor that supports a specific resolution?
I've been battling this for a few days now. Any and all help is appreciated.
I have a planar monitor with a native res of 1280x1024. At one point, I had used PowerStrip to override "something" and ...
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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.
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