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Projecter changing widescreen resolution

  • 18-09-2009 12:08pm
    #1
    Time Magazine
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    I have a widescreen laptop and my favourite resolution is 1280x800. (Vista, in-built graphics card.)

    I regularly give Powerpoint (*cough*beamer*cough*) presentations at work. The problem is that when I hook up to the overhead projector, the resolution changes to (I think) 1024x768.

    This squishes everything and often I have to disconnect, manually resize to fit in a certain region on screen, then reconnect. This is neither fun nor professional. It's also a pain in the ass to have to move my desktop items back when the presentation is over.

    Is there any way to regulate this? Software that tricks the projector into thinking I'm really on 1024x768, say?

    Anything? :(


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  • #2
    Ricky91t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Ricky91t


    I'm abit confused as to what happens but it sounds like a projector where you work has a max resolution of 1024x768,If you adjust your laptop resolution to 1024x768 they'll look the same.

    You can do this by,Right clicking on your desktop(anywhere on the wallpaper)Click personalise then Display setting and drag the silder to the left till you see 1024x768 you could also wait till you plug in the projector repeat the same process and click the no.2 monitor and see if you can adjust it to a higher resolution.

    Sorry if I misunderstood your question and this wasn't what you're looking for!


  • #3
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    Thanks for the reply.

    Alas, it's more complicated than that. Yeah I have resized the resolution manually to 1024x768 but it looks awful. I know it the two resolutions aren't a millions miles apart but the display is terrible - everything is so out of proportion.


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