and everythings turned big, ive had a look around and it already says its on the 'small' setting, any ideas on howto make everything normal size again?

thanks

Perito

Are you saying that icons and fonts are very large?

Get into the Control Panel and adjust your screen resolution. I believe that your screen resolution is too low (it's a guess, I know).

Also, check your video driver and make sure that it installed correctly. If it didn't, you may need to get an updated driver from the manufacturer's web site.

Curlyben

Depends what you mean by BIG.
Could be the graphics drivers need updating or the fact the desktop icons on vista and 7 are larger than those of XP.

Come on 'bear you know the score, more information required

albear

yeah sorry about being a bit vague

thanks perito i did adjust the resolution and now the background fits the screen,

web pages and other screens dont quite, so as you guys say ill probably need to update the graphics drivers

Curlyben

Did you go for a clean install (recommended) or Vista (spit) upgrade ??

albear

i had to choose the custom intall, sice apparently i couldnt upgrade to windows 7 professional from vista home premium

Curlyben

There may well be your problem.
Any upgrade does "carry over" some system quirks and as we well know Vista was one BIG quirk.

Back up and start over.
You wont regret it in the long run.

albear

so your saying to restore a back up from before i installed windows 7 and start the install again?

Curlyben

Nope.
Scrub it and start from fresh.
Back up your data and go from there.
Big job, yes, but well worth it.

I've tested machine with clean installs and upgrades and, you guessed it, the clean install wins for stability and reliability..

albear

if i understand correctly, your suggesting to format my laptop and then install windows 7 ?

(i already copied my C and D drives to my external hard drive before i tried installing 7 the first time)