Help with the monitor

[Dodge_Sniper]

I don't know exactly what my monitor is doing, and it's never done this before, but it looks like everything is basically scrunched up. The icons on the desktop, for example, look compressed and pushed together, like the monior is too small. I don't know when this happened, but the last time I used this computer, the screen was fine. Since I wasn't around when it happened, I don't know how to undo it. Any ideas?

 

[NicAuf]

Did the resolution get changed by chance?

 

[Dodge_Sniper]

I'm honestly unsure of how to do that stuff. All I know is everything looks all scrunched up, like it doesn't fit. The last time I used this computer was Thursday. Yesterday I was at the movies, and today I came here, and it was like this. Thursday it was fine though, so I'm thinking my sister did something.

The montior has an auto-adjust button, but when I did that, nothing happened. It says the resolution recommended is 1280 x 1024, but I don't know if that helps or anything.

 

[sierrabravo]

try right clicking on the desktop and click properties. click settings and check the resolution

 

[Dodge_Sniper]

Oh, that works Thanks man!

 

[sierrabravo]

no prob!

 

[Ryder]

Can someone help me with my computer?

 

[NicAuf]

Whats the problem?

(But if I remember correctly you have a mac, so I'm not sure if I can help)

 

[Ryder]

It takes a shit-load of a long time to get to the login window. Help!

 

[NicAuf]

Whats the specs on your computer? (RAM, processor speed, etc)

 

[Ryder]

How do I find that?

 

[NicAuf]

Do you have a mac or PC with Windows

 

[Ryder]

Mac so I should go into System Preferences?

 

[NicAuf]

Well I was looking online and it says to open "Finder" and look in "Applications" and there should be a program called "System Profiler"

Hope that helps, I'm not a Mac user whatsoever, so I'm looking up info on the fly.

 

[ConTRo13R]

Sort your hard drive out, defrag, clean out junk files and stuff, also minimalise all start up items.

CPU speed an d ram speed have no adverse eect on start up times, its all to do with amount of ram and hard drive speed and cleaness. Though on a mac less ram is usaully better for some odd reason

 

[bass_man1989]

If it goes slow beyond the start up try turning off some of the fancy shit. Like the animations on the dock and such.