PC 'Stretched'

[stearman65]

PS surely it *might* cure a stretched picture to change/set the resolution if the aspect ratio of the current resolution is not the same as the aspect ratio that the monitor/display was set to when the picture was made into the Windows Wallpaper?

BB

If the correlation of the aspect ratio is incorrect in the software, changing it to another supposedly set value would not effect a cure IMO. More history of what happened my solve what has gone wrong.

 

[stearman65]

I don't suppose you can film yourself struggling manfully with it, then post the resultant vid on here..?

I ask because some people's "default" or "preferred" screen resolution is not what the monitor's native (designed) resolution would be. Therefore we don't know what you would previously have considered "normal". So film yourself and with a running commentary of the issues...

As for the bookmarks disappearing, do you mean the ones on Chrome? Or Internet Explorer? Or on "Computer"? Because the fix if there is one would be different for each case.


I don't think "System Restore" would be classed as "simple" to the OP (with the greatest of respect to the OP) - and anyway it depends if they set a Restore Point previously, doesn't it?

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Your Windows system automatically creates restore points throughout its operation, all that is necessary & simple is to search for system restore, which is located in control panel, go back in the restore point history dates & pick one before the problem began, then allow the system to go back to that date. Hopefully, it may cure the problem.

 

[bonsaibilly]

This is my wallpaper at the moment, display res set to Native (1366x768). The image is originally square by the way. So I deliberately have this image in the centre of my screen, with black bands either side.

Now I have changed the resolution to 1024x768. The whole available display does not fill the physical screen.I have set the Wallpaper to "stretch" and it fills the whole available display, though as I've just said, not the whole physical screen. You can see that the image is stretched laterally.

It's possible then, that the person who "fixed" the OP's computer, caused the display settings to change from the previously set resolution to something different, and also caused the Wallpaper image's aspect ratio to be different to what it was before.

In fact, IMHO the symptoms described suggest that the resolution has been increased in the course of the "fix", and whatever Wallpaper was previously confined to a more "stocky" aspect ratio has now been "laterally stretched" by virtue of the display being set at the native res. If so, I am recommending the OP retains the native res, as in the long run it will be better for performance and probably reduce the risk of undetected chronic eye strain.

I agree - more context is absolutely needed to avoid further idle speculation!

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[bonsaibilly]

Your Windows system automatically creates restore points throughout its operation, all that is necessary & simple is to search for system restore, which is located in control panel, go back in the restore point history dates & pick one before the problem began, then allow the system to go back to that date. Hopefully, it may cure the problem.

Mine doesn't. I think you have to tell it that you want it to create restore points?

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[bonsaibilly]

Plus if you *did* Restore it there's a risk you might reimplement whatever crap was on there that led to it needing to be sorted out in the first place!

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[stearman65]

Plus if you *did* Restore it there's a risk you might reimplement whatever crap was on there that led to it needing to be sorted out in the first place!

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I did say use a restore point dated before the problem began!

 

[stearman65]

We still don't know what OS is in use, could even be a Mac? I use W7 Professional. When I type SR into the search box bottom left of my desktop I get the attached s/shot???

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I did say use a restore point dated before the problem began!

Which is fine... until the next Windows Update that comes along, which will possibly re-introduce the same problem, unless you're very selective about which updates to apply (and know which ones to leave out).

 

[stearman65]

Which is fine... until the next Windows Update that comes along, which will possibly re-introduce the same problem, unless you're very selective about which updates to apply (and know which ones to leave out).

My updates are switched off & only notify me, I then decide which if any I want.

 

[bonsaibilly]

My updates are switched off & only notify me, I then decide which if any I want.

Right... By the same principle W7 asks if you want to set up Restore, during installation.. I said No.

 

[stearman65]

Right... By the same principle W7 asks if you want to set up Restore, during installation.. I said No.

I am a 25 year plus PC user, System Restore has got me out of a hole many times during those years, particularly when the 4 years living aboard our yacht in the med' & using internet cafe's. That is the first time I have heard you can switch off SR during the installation of the OS.

 

[bonsaibilly]

I am a 25 year plus PC user, System Restore has got me out of a hole many times during those years, particularly when the 4 years living aboard our yacht in the med' & using internet cafe's. That is the first time I have heard you can switch off SR during the installation of the OS.

Fair enough, all I can say is that if I go to my rstrui I haven't got any restore points (clean installed W7 a week ago) so either it defaulted to not setting a restore point and is waiting for me to initiate it, or it asked me during installation if I wanted to initiate it and I said "No". Either way it follows that it isn't guaranteed that any computer with Windows on it will have a restore point that can be used - even if in your case it would have because you've got one set up.

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PS 25 years this year, also.

 

[stearman65]

Conversely, the PC with the problem may have a useful restore point.?