Virtually increase screen resolution?

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Svampskallen

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Hi,

I was wondering if there is any way to increase the screen resolution virtually? Let me explain... I use a HP Pavillion dv-5 laptop, with my screen resolution set to the maximum of 1280x800px, but I would like to increase that by "one step". However, I can see that my screen doesn't support any higher resolution and that it will run best in 1280x800.

When I googled it for a while, I found this:http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/faq...ncrease-your-dell-mini-screen-resolution.html which seems to be a kind of a zooming function for a MAC. Is there any way to "zoom" windows 7/vista out one step? So that I can get everything smaller, not just the menu and the icons, but everything, text and so on, to simulate an increased screen resolution. Thank you for any help!

EDIT: I should tell you that I use a ATI HD 3450 graphics card, and that I can't find any setting for such settings in the drivers of my graphics card.

//Fredrik
 
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I dont know about your card as I'm used to my Nvidia, but I can de-select "hide resolutions this monitor doesn't support", and get everything the card does. By doing this but not changing refresh rate I have no instability problems. Maybe that will help? If not I'm sure someone else has got something.
 
Yeah, I thought of that, but I can't seem to find any kind of options like that. I'm not sure how high resolutions my card can handle, but I googled it quickley and people are using higher, I can see straight away.

If anybody knows how to enable such option i ATI CCC, please tell me.

Maybe there is a way to configure DPI setting? Mine is set to 100% and can't seem to go below 100. Can you tweak that somehow?
 
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The screen resolution is the maximum number of pixels the monitor can control. That means any interpolation needs to occur as a magnification, not a zoom out. Physical limitation that software cannot overcome.
 
bigfellla said:
The screen resolution is the maximum number of pixels the monitor can control. That means any interpolation needs to occur as a magnification, not a zoom out. Physical limitation that software cannot overcome.
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So there is no way to just make everything smaller on the screen, to simulate a higher screen resolution. Anyway, thanks for the help!
 
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