When I turned on my laptop today, the desktop does not cover the entire screen.  How do I make it increase to entire screen?  Thanks for anyone's help! :-?Try this..What kind of windows do you. have? here is something that might help.. go to your desktop and RIGHT CLICK and select proporties. and then on the top tabs select Settings and increas your screen resolution.. and that might help.. Tell us how it goes.. k
use monitor controls. buttons on the monitor hit menu then go to a symbol to stretch and move it untill it is how u want pitch and center are the options u want to changeSounds like the resolution needs to change - I guess you have a black outline all around the desktop?

Right-click on the desktopm choose Properties.  Click the Settings tab.  Drag the screen resolution slider (bottom left) to change the resolution.  You may need to try one or two settings to get it right.Wow - everyone replied at once!  I think Maksim's and my solutions are the ones to try; uncontrolled_teen is referring to the procedure with a CRT monitor (which doesn't apply to laptops).thanks for everyone's help.  i did try incresing the screen resolution, hit apply then ok but it just went back to the original setting.  i RESTARTED the computer but that didn't work either.  any more suggestions?Bit more detail please.  What is the screen resolution set to, what did you change it to, and what EXACTLY happened when it CHANGED back on its own?sorry, I got busy and failed to answer back.  finally got it to take the change in screen resolution.  don't know why it wouldn't work at first, but now it's okay and thanks to all!Great!  Do COME back if you have any other problems.