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Help please - screen gone crazy!

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  • 29-10-2013 10:53pm
    #1
    NYCityBabe
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭


    Hi guys, hoping someone can help me!

    My silly little persian cat walked on my laptop keys, obviously pressed one of the F keys or a combination of keys and now my screen has streched horizantally :(

    It's not the F11 button that makes fullscreen. It's a normal screen, just streched length ways.

    It's doing my head in, all my photo's and documents look ridiculous and it is too hard to work with everything streched across.

    I'm afraid to press random F buttons incase I make things worse.

    Google has no info on this type of screen problem :(

    Please help!!!


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    Bog Standard User
    Registered Users Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    NYCityBabe wrote: »
    Hi guys, hoping someone can help me!

    My silly little persian cat walked on my laptop keys, obviously pressed one of the F keys or a combination of keys and now my screen has streched horizantally :(

    It's not the F11 button that makes fullscreen. It's a normal screen, just streched length ways.

    It's doing my head in, all my photo's and documents look ridiculous and it is too hard to work with everything streched across.

    I'm afraid to press random F buttons incase I make things worse.

    Google has no info on this type of screen problem :(

    Please help!!!

    right click on the desktop and choose screen resolution

    next choose the correct resolution to suit your screen and click apply... if it is wrong it will revert back in 15 seconds automatically... if it is right choose accept and it will keep that change

    square shaped screens typically use 1280x1024
    widescreens typically use 1280x900


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    danjo-xx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,393 ✭✭✭danjo-xx


    catanimation-22.gif


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    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    danjo-xx wrote: »
    catanimation-22.gif

    Coulda been MY cat! :D

    nLb7X7h.jpg


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    NYCityBabe
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭NYCityBabe


    Well, I got it sorted! I will keep little madam away from laptop keys in the future!

    Tried your suggestion Bog Standard, sadly it didn't change things, so further goolging led me to the answer... press Fn and the space bar, got me back my normal screen!


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    #6
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    You have it solved now but any others with the same problem another solution is to hold CTRL + ALT + any one of the arrow keys to rotate the display back to normal.

    EDIT: Oops, different to different problem


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    petes
    Registered Users Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    You have it solved now but any others with the same problem another solution is to hold CTRL + ALT + any one of the arrow keys to rotate the display back to normal.

    That's a handy tip and it happens more than you think but the OP screen wasn't rotated.


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    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    petes wrote: »
    That's a handy tip and it happens more than you think but the OP screen wasn't rotated.

    Yea, read the OP wrong, oops :pac:


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