It may be just a matter of getting used to it. The 800×600 format was pretty much the standard when most monitors were either 14 or 15 inch, and a 15 inch monitor commonly was 13 to 13 1/2 inches actual corner-to-corner size. Now that 17 to 19 inch or larger monitors, or their LCD equivalents, are common, most people are using higher screen resolutions. A 12 pt font, for instance will appear about the same size on a 1024×768 19" screen as it did on an 800×600 15" screen, but you will see a lot more of the canvas behind it. That’s obviously useful for a lot of applications.
Personally, I prefer 1280×1024 on both my 19" CRT and my 17" LCD. In fact, the LCD’s native resolution is 1280×1024, and lower resolutions do not reproduce stuff very well. For CAD work I often raise the CRT’s resolution to 1600×1200. It doesn’t actually resolve things any better, of course, but it does reduce the aliasing somewhat.
Don
"dwolf" wrote in message
Maybe I will learn something new here. I have always kept my screen at 800
x
600. When I up it, well to me I don’t like the fact that everything is smaller in alot of programs.. the text, icon. I know I could probably up
the
text size but then web page layout would be wrong… So is there a way to
up
the resolution and yet everything will look similar to 800 x600
