What it is the resolution you are using?

Have you installed the lates video driver and changed the resolution to a widescreen resolution???

 

What's the resolution are you using?

I have and no luck. I am hoping I am missing something and Vista will use the entire screen

I'm not positive about Nvidia or Intel Graphics cards but ATI has a setting in the catalyst control center for " Preserve Aspect ratio, Full Screen, or Centered ". Also make sure you have the LCD Graphics resolution set to the native format, on my 15.4 wide screen it is 1280 X 800.

 

pcgeek11

The currnt resolution I am at is 1280 x 1024 or 1024 x 768. With either resoltion I have black space to the left and right. As I go bigger resolution (towards 640 x 480) the black space increases and and the lowest numbers I will have 4 or 5 inches of black space on both sides.

 

I provide my system ID when seraching Dell for updated drivers and there are no video drivers available for updating. It worked great with XP. This is the only sore spot with Vista. It is dual boot with Linux Fedora and it works great. The only sore spot about Fedora is I have not found the drivers yet for the internal wireless.

" The currnt resolution I am at is 1280 x 1024 or 1024 x 768."

 

This is your problem along with the Video Driver. Neither of these is a widescreen resolution. And it sounds like you do not have the video driver for Vista Installed. Did you attempt to install the XP Drivers as they might work. I used XP Drivers on my Inspiron 5100 running Vista Basic.

 

What Video Card are you using? You may locate a driver at the chp manufactures site Nvidia or Intel.

 

pcgeek11

Teh best resolution you can get is 1200x800 if you don't have that, download the driver (make sure it is a Vista driver) and change the screen to a widescreen resolution, when you are changing, you'll see the image on top showing a square screen or a wide screen