Manually Setting Monitor Screen Resolution

Note: Be warned that serious damage can result from entering settings that your monitor does not support.

Step by Step Procedure

1. Goto the run command box, type: regedit, clk ok

2. Left clk/highlight the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Folder

3. Clk the edit button then clk find.

4. Type: resolution, clk find next.

5. Right clk resolution, clk modify

6. Enter the proper resolution figure in the value

data box. IE: 800,600 Clk ok,close Reg Editor.

 

For informational purposes I had one monitor whose display was narrow in width & looked slightly taller than normal.
As it turned out the settings were something like 723x667.
Don't have a clue as to how it ended up with the odd settings,but when I set them @ 800x600 everything was fine.