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   Steve Urbach to loom@alphalink.com.au   
   Re: Desktop display gone wrong   
   30 Apr 13 17:38:41   
   
   From: dragonsclaw@NOTmindspring.com   
      
   On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:38:56 +1000, "Ed"  wrote:   
      
   >Hi,   
   >My desktop display has for no reason that I know of started to display the   
   >image in a series of multiples of the picture instead of just the one.  This   
   >occured when I was changing it to a new one. I've done this many times &   
   >never had this happen.  I checked in control panel/display/desktop & there   
   >are 3 options- tile (which is the mode it put itself into), centre &   
   >stretch, none of which puts the desktop wall-paper back to how it was, i.e.   
   >spread across the whole screen as a single image without being distorted.   
   >It's strange because I have never touched any of these settings, the images   
   >I chose just displayed across the the full width of the screen and as as a   
   >single image.   
   >Any advice much appreciated.   
   >Thanks   
   >   
   So! What was the resolution and Aspect ratio of your old Monitor?   
   AND Were you using it at that Maximum??   
      
   Stretch only goes so far ;)   
   Then Tile might be a better choice (Or simply get a bigger picture)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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