How to automatically adjust the screen to fill the monitor

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Monitor: Dell M992

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

Screen Resolution: 1280×1024

My monitor is set to it's factory settings, however it won't auto adjust to fill the monitor. There are black spaces around my monitor and it's annoying! I've tried manually adjusting it but I just can't get it right (It bugs me if it's not perfect).

I was wondering if there are any ways to automatically adjust it. Maybe there is software that will do it? Is there a site which shows the exact adjustment numbers to make it fit perfectly?

Best Answer

Wow, a VGA CRT? I didn't know people still used those :) BRB, let me get my sliderule, scythe and bow and arrow... :D

Actually, according to the user manual you linked us to, it is supposedly capable of 1600 x 1200 @ 75 Hz. See this page of the manual.

Maybe the reason why it isn't scaling to the whole screen is that you're setting it to the lower resolution 1280 x 1024. Does your screen resolution properties show an option for 1600 x 1200 @ 75 Hz?

If it doesn't, you may have to download a driver for it. You can try the 32-bit Windows XP driver available for download from CNet (so I'm assuming the file is clean because it's hosted there, but YMMV). As far as I know, Windows monitor "drivers" for VGA monitors are just .inf files that tell the system about the supported resolutions... So hopefully this is all you need, and it should work even on a Windows 7 machine.

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