Unable to change screen resolution

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Jon R
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Joined: 22. Sep 2008, 22:36

Unable to change screen resolution

Post by Jon R »

I use extended desktop when in the office but since I have done this with Virtualbox I am unable to get full screen resolution on my Aspire One.

The standard resolution is 1024 x 600 but since using extended desktop with my external screen as the main device running a resolution of 1280 x 1024 I am unable to get this. It always goes into 800 x 600 on fullscreen.

I am running 2.0.6(upgraded from 2.0.2 and 2.0.4) although the problem occured under 2.0.2. I am on Windows XP Pro SP3 with Windows guests.

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