Game not full screen

Hello

When I open certain video games that have been made prior to Windows Vista (it seems that way), the video game will open, but there are black borders on the sides of my screen, and it is really hard to see what is happening in the game. On my other laptop computers that are running Windows XP, the games work fine. On another game that was made in 2007, I had the same problem but fixed it by changing the game at a higher resolution. The problem is, the older games are running in the highest resolution possible, and none of them have a resolution as high as the most recent games. Please help me!

The games are:

2001: Stumovik IL-2 1946

2002: battlefield 1942

2007 (resolved): Medal of Honor Airborne

found the following on this in another thread:

You have some software related to your graphics card, such as ATI Catalyst Center?

You can check the solution in this topic: screen not dimensionnera lower resolutions to fill screen...

"If you try ATI Catalyst Control Center to follow this:

Go to the ATI Catalyst Control Center (by right-clicking on the desktop and choosing to go to the ATI Control Center), at the top left there will be a drop menu, click on it and choose "Office and poster" at the bottom of the screen right-click on the icon of your screen and choose "Configure," on the next screen select "scaling Options" tab You can then drag the updated rul up to 0% on the scale and you should see the screen change to cover the full screen.

starting from this post: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistagaming/thread/131a6420-b13b-4206-ae22-1e7bb1e210b9

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