How do I correct the moitor screen image? The print/images are compressed to the left and right edges of the screen and extended to the centre of the screen.

This occurred after a MS auto update or is this a co-incidence?

Thanks in anticipation

eg007

Have you tried booting up in safe mode and seeing if it works right? Maybe it's the video card drivers and not the monitor drivers? This is tough to figure out long distance...hopefully you're not another victim of a windows service pack

ds1212

I have tried booting up in the safe mode and there was no difference. I have just found that if I alter the resolution to 800 x 600 in the desk top setup I get rid of the distortion but the size icons etc is huge. Increasing the reslution reduces the sizing but brings back the distortion.

Any ideas out there?

eg007

Win XP has 2 sizes of icons...normal and large. You may be set on large although they shouldn't be that much bigger than normal even when set on large. I think normal is 32x32 and large is 48x48. There is a program called Powerstrip you might try. It lets you do custom resolutions and such on supported hardware.

ds1212

The icons were set on small and changing them to large to see what happens made no differance at all?

Thanks for the interest

eg007

I'd try that Powerstrip program or a similar one then...other than that I don't know. Sorry.