On my laptop the screen picture has gotten smaller and the outside of it is black. i dont know what the problem is. it is an old laptop and i dont no whether its from age.

Its not actually a problem or a fault, its just a setting that has been changed in the video card settings.

There are two ways to fix it.

One of them is to adjust the resolution, right click on your desktop and select properties, from there select the last tab which says settings, see the resolution slider, slide it towards the higher end, where the numbers get bigger, and apply, if the problem got worse you have gone to the wrong direction, if the black area is smaller or gone you have gone to the right direction. adjust the resolution until you don't have black outside on the display.

if the text and icons become too small, you need to open the advanced settings from the page, and find monitor scaling settings so that the computer fills the whole screen regardless of the resolution in use.

After you have found the scaleing setting you can go back to the resolution slider and slide it down untill you can read the screen well, the picture should cover the whole screen.

Dear User,

You need to install video (VGA) driver for perfect preview.
with out VGA or graphic drivers Laptop did not give perfect preview.

Hopefully it will work after driver installation
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