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I downloaded a game from Yahoo! games and after I installed it, my whole display is stretched out and huge. I uninstalled it, no effect. I went to the screen settings and it's still set to normal. It looks like when you try and watch a full screen movie on a widescreen tv. It's driving me crazy, I'd appreciate any help.

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The symptom you describe (everything “stretched” and fonts huge even though the desktop resolution looks normal) usually isn’t just a plain resolution change. Common causes are Windows DPI/font scaling, GPU scaling settings, or the monitor’s own aspect/auto-adjust. was right that the video driver can be involved, and ’s note about the monitor buttons is useful — here are focused, practical checks that go deeper than just “change the resolution.”

Right-click the desktop -> Properties. In Windows XP look under Appearance -> Font size and set it to Normal, then Settings -> Advanced -> General and confirm the DPI is the default (96 / “Normal”). Large-DPI or “Large Fonts” will make everything look huge even when the resolution hasn’t changed.

Check the graphics driver’s scaling controls (NVIDIA/AMD/Intel control panels). Those panels can force full-screen scaling or non‑aspect-ratio stretching. If you don’t see a vendor control panel, open Device Manager -> Display adapters -> right-click the adapter -> Roll Back Driver (if available) or Uninstall, then reboot and install the proper driver from the card maker. Reinstalling drivers is the safe route if driver settings got changed.

Other quick tests: press the monitor’s OSD “auto” or reset to factory defaults (CRT auto-adjust matters; LCDs must be set to their native resolution). Boot Windows into Safe Mode (F8) to see whether the problem persists; if Safe Mode looks normal, a driver or startup utility is the culprit. If all else fails, use System Restore to a point before the game install, then reinstall drivers from the GPU vendor.

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Try reinstalling the drivers for your display adapter. Let us know how that works out.

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just change the settings of ur display in the desktop properties
sometimes games/programs changes the resolution but forget to restore the settings after the game.
very rarely it happens

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The OP wrote, "I went to the screen settings and it's still set to normal." I took this to mean that he or she has already checked that.

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may be problem with ur monitor resolutions settings
u please set the montior resolution by seleting it on the monitor buttons
like selecct and adjust
this will solve ur problem

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