Incredible downsized screen
Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Posted by Noah_Vaile
(1 messages posted)
Dell Inspiron 8000, 512 ram, 40GB HD, Win Me o/S. I have only been playing games,
and simple ones at that (Panzer General II, Steel Panthers variants). Nothing else
on the computrer but basic o/s. I cannot take it online. It has never been on line.
Yesterday due to an unfortunate power outage the machine unexpectedly cut out. Upon
restarting everything is tiny, from icons to drop down/open up windows. My games
are now limited to about 1/6 of the screen (although the entire page is there). Even
my 'background' won't fill the screen unless I have screenj area set to 1200x1600.
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re: Incredible downsized screen
Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Posted by Ed
(598 messages posted)
1. REVERT TO A REGISTRY BACKUP
Boot to DOS (using a bootable Win ME floppy from http://www.bootdisk.com) and type the following at the C:\ prompt
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SCANREG /RESTORE
Note the space before the forward slash in this command.
Follow the on-screen instructions, and try to restore the *oldest* backup of the
registry (they're listed by date) as that's the one with the best chance of being
from before the problem arose.
By default Windows keeps 5 backup copies of the Windows Registry, so that you can
go back to before the problem arose.
When an on-screen message tells you that the registry has been successfully restored,
restart the computer normally.
2. USE SYSTEM RESTORE
If the above hasn't solved the problem, use Win ME's "system restore" function to
return the system to a point before the problem arose, if you have System Restore
enabled in your computer.
For details, do a google search on the phrase "System Restore in Windows ME" at http://www.google.com
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http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=%22System+Restore+in+Windows+ME%22
Ed
On Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 4:57 pm, Noah_Vaile wrote:
>Dell Inspiron 8000, 512 ram, 40GB HD, Win Me o/S. I have only been playing games,
>and simple ones at that (Panzer General II, Steel Panthers variants). Nothing else
>on the computrer but basic o/s. I cannot take it online. It has never been on line.
>Yesterday due to an unfortunate power outage the machine unexpectedly cut out. Upon
>restarting everything is tiny, from icons to drop down/open up windows. My games
>are now limited to about 1/6 of the screen (although the entire page is there).
Even
>my 'background' won't fill the screen unless I have screenj area set to 1200x1600.
>
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