I've bought an external LCD monitor for my laptop (HP Pavilion
notebook zv 5000).After a little while I realize that I bought it too
big("19).Sitting at front of "19 screen for a few hours it's kind
harsh for my eyes.Just like been sitting at front of TV set a couple
feet away.So I decided decrease the viewing area on my external
monitor (like having screen in the screen).I went to NVIDIA
program,then I found out what I wanted - NV Keyston option and I
decrease a viewing area the way I wanted to.I noticed right away that
the fonts,icons,images look blurry,not clear enough.I played with it -
I switched to a lower screen resolution,switched to a lower bit color
depth and I tried couple other things yet.Nothing helped, just made it
worse.There is my question - is this normal that after decreasing
viewing area whole picture has less video quality or is this something
wrong with my computer?

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 22 Jun 2005 14:08 PDT

Howdy markiz-ga,

You might want to check to see if you have "ClearType" activated.

To check this, "right click" on an empty spot of your desktop.  Left click
on Properties on the menu that appears.  Click on the Appearance tab, then
the Effects button.  Make sure that the box to the left of the line "Use
the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts:" is checked and that
ClearType is selected in the menu below that line.  Click on OK, then OK
again to exit.  See if that had a positive result and report the results
back here please.  Thanks!

Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

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Clarification of Question by markiz-ga on 24 Jun 2005 01:02 PDT

Clear type of fonts has been activated; of course the box "Use the
following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" has been checked,
too. No improvement at all. I quess, Kaminsknator in his comment is
right.

Nothing is wrong with your computer. When you are lowering the
resolution on a monitor like that it makes you view the same
resolution but in a smaller viewing area. No matter what resolution
you put it at it will be distorted because of this change. The same
effect will happen when converting your screen resolution to another
device. If you were to put out you computer to your tv it would have
the same effect