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jdogg
10-24-09, 08:50 PM
my laptop i dont know why but it zoomed way in on everything how do i zoom out on it

compaq, vista couple years old
Marlin Guy
10-24-09, 08:55 PM
Ctrl + Scroll up/down
rudeney
10-24-09, 08:56 PM
Does the desktop shift around the screen as you move the mouse around, i.e. like "scrolling" on a iPhone/iPod Touch? If so, it sounds like your screen resolution has been changed to something that is larger and incompatible with your monitor's capabilities. Right-click on the desktop and choose "personalize" and change the screen resolution there.
LarryFlowers
10-24-09, 08:57 PM
my laptop i dont know why but it zoomed way in on everything how do i zoom out on it

compaq, vista couple years old

Sounds like you turned the magnifier on or changed the screen resolution
jdogg
10-24-09, 09:46 PM
nothing shifts around i was getting readyto play starcraft, which looks okish and everything went big! for not doing anything sure is messed up, why would this happen? give me a sec i am getting a pic

how do i turn on/ off the magnifier?
John W
10-24-09, 09:56 PM
nothing shifts around i was getting readyto play starcraft, which looks okish and everything went big! for not doing anything sure is messed up, why would this happen? give me a sec i am getting a pic

how do i turn on/ off the magnifier?

Try Ctrl then 0
jdogg
10-24-09, 10:06 PM
that didnt do anything
jdogg
10-24-09, 10:10 PM
got it! the resolution was off, how did that happen is there a hot key for it? i didnt mess with anything it just happened!

how can i get the factory defaults back?
rudeney
10-25-09, 11:04 AM
got it! the resolution was off, how did that happen is there a hot key for it? i didnt mess with anything it just happened!

how can i get the factory defaults back?

That's what I thought. I had this problem early on in Vista on my Dell laptop and even in the early betas of Win7. It seems to be a driver problem where the O/S gets an erroneous report of the resolutions support. It seems to happen when the PC resumes from shutdown or sleep. The first thing I would do is a full shutdown and then restart. When you get to the desktop, right-click and then choose "Personalize", then "Display Settings".. From there,choose the resolution you need (the best is the native resolution of the LCD panel). If you can't set it any higher than it is now, then there is likely a problems with your video card driver (or less likely), the hardware itself.