Desktop is now too big and cluttered with unnecessary icons

A friend recently installed Windows XP Professional. His office is now more size (it has vertical/horizontal scrollbars) & office space is filled with icons on every restart that he returned to a folder every time. How can this be addressed? (Thanks in advance!) :)

Hello

This could be for a few reasons...

  1. The screen resolution is set too low
  2. The graphics device driver is not installed

Reason no. 1:

  • Click with the right button on a part empty your desktop, and then click Properties
  • Click on the settings tab
  • Drag the slider to the right
  • Click OK

This should give the native resolution of your monitor. If not you may need to get the latest drivers for graphics (reason 2).

Reason 2:

  • Click Start
  • Click on run
  • Type devmgmt.msc and press enter
  • Enlarge (click on +) cards of the screen section

If the graphics card is displayed in Standard VGA mode then you need to install the drivers for your graphics card. The same is true if there is no graphics listed, but there is a list under other devices.

If you need help finding drivers we need to know your model of graphics card. If the chart is embedded (that is built into the motherboard) we need the make and model of your PC or motherboard.

Tricky

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