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Help - need to fix screen aspect ratio

littlerock
littlerock Posts: 1,774 Forumite
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I was just dusting my monitor and keyboard and I seem to have inadvertantly hit a key which has changed the aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3. How do I change it back? I am running windows 7.

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  • neilmcl
    neilmcl Posts: 19,460 Forumite
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    Hit the key again ;)

    Was it a key on your keyboard or a button on your monitor that you inadvertently knocked.

    If you can't find it then right-click on your desktop and chhose whatever graphics settings/option you're running. There should be a setting regarding aspect ratios.
  • littlerock
    littlerock Posts: 1,774 Forumite
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    Screen resolution for the monitor is showing the correct (rectangular) setting recommended for the monitor but the display stays obstinately square in the middle with black side panels.
  • emptybox
    emptybox Posts: 442 Forumite
    It'll likely be a button on the monitor that you have touched.
    And as they are all different, you'd have to tell us make and model.
  • neilmcl
    neilmcl Posts: 19,460 Forumite
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    littlerock wrote: »
    Screen resolution for the monitor is showing the correct (rectangular) setting recommended for the monitor but the display stays obstinately square in the middle with black side panels.
    Are you running Intel HD Graphics on your PC, do you see the following when right-clicking the desktop?

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  • littlerock
    littlerock Posts: 1,774 Forumite
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    Sorry I thought I posted the reply earlier. Must have forgotten to send. It was indeed an "invisible" button under the monitor. All OK now :)
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