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Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 8:55 am
Posted by tony (65 messages posted)

hi everyone...does anyone have any idea why my screen resolution would change on its own?..my wife was playing a game...and she left the pc for a few minutes,and when she came back...the icons on the screen had gone to a bigger size...and the game had gone off...could the game be the problem?..thanks a lot.

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Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 9:55 am
Posted by William (2 messages posted)

That is a common issue with windows xp. If a game or other program that changes the resolution to operate terminates unexpectedly, the screen does no t resize. Usually a restart will fix this issue. This occured because your game runs, most likely in 640X480.


On Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 8:55 am, tony wrote:
>hi everyone...does anyone have any idea why my screen resolution would change on
>its own?..my wife was playing a game...and she left the pc for a few minutes,and
>when she came back...the icons on the screen had gone to a bigger size...and the
>game had gone off...could the game be the problem?..thanks a lot.

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