minimized MCE screen....

When minimized in the corner of my monitor, the screen used to be wide screen
16: 9, now it is square 4: 3. I have tried to drag it by it's side to stretch
it out, but it becomes a bigger square.

No item under MCE settings seem to work either.

Please, does anyone know how to fix?

John
Mon Apr 28 02:58:32 PDT 2008

On 28/4/08 03:52, in article
86B90475-F312-40B5-9535-9F9C023BD1F9@microsoft.com, "Matt"
<Matt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> When minimized in the corner of my monitor, the screen used to be wide screen
> 16: 9, now it is square 4: 3. I have tried to drag it by it's side to stretch
> it out, but it becomes a bigger square.
>
> No item under MCE settings seem to work either.
>
> Please, does anyone know how to fix?

I don't know about Vista, but for MCE2005 the default mode for windowed
display (not full screen) is indeed 4:3 even if your screen/tv is a
widescreen one.

It is possible to use a flag when launching MCE so that it uses 16:9 in
windowed mode. Either you can do this when using the 'run' command from the
start menu, or more usefully you can do this to a shortcut which you can
then reuse. However I have noticed that if you leave MCE running overnight
then it has a scheduled 'reset' operation (supposedly to house clean) which
causes it to revert to 4:3 until you quit and relaunch it using the
shortcut.

The command line instruction you would put in the shortcut is as follows

%SystemRoot%\ehome\eshell.exe /widescreen

Graham
Tue Apr 29 08:58:01 PDT 2008

I have somehow managed to change the shape of the media centre screen when it
is on the desktop. It has changed from 4:3 to a 16:9 and cuts off the top and
bottom of the picture. When I try to resize it, it keeps itself in proportion
of 16:9.

I have tried John Lockwood's idea but it doesn't seem to work in vista.
If anyone has got ANY ideas!

"Matt" wrote:

> When minimized in the corner of my monitor, the screen used to be wide screen
> 16: 9, now it is square 4: 3. I have tried to drag it by it's side to stretch
> it out, but it becomes a bigger square.
>
> No item under MCE settings seem to work either.
>
> Please, does anyone know how to fix?

Matt
Wed Apr 30 12:15:00 PDT 2008


I've had this machine for about 6 months, and my minimized screen was 16:9
up until a month or so ago, so it may be only Vista related.

Would I paste that shortcut in the 'run' command line?
"John Lockwood" wrote:

> On 28/4/08 03:52, in article
> 86B90475-F312-40B5-9535-9F9C023BD1F9@microsoft.com, "Matt"
> <Matt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > When minimized in the corner of my monitor, the screen used to be wide screen
> > 16: 9, now it is square 4: 3. I have tried to drag it by it's side to stretch
> > it out, but it becomes a bigger square.
> >
> > No item under MCE settings seem to work either.
> >
> > Please, does anyone know how to fix?
>
> I don't know about Vista, but for MCE2005 the default mode for windowed
> display (not full screen) is indeed 4:3 even if your screen/tv is a
> widescreen one.
>
> It is possible to use a flag when launching MCE so that it uses 16:9 in
> windowed mode. Either you can do this when using the 'run' command from the
> start menu, or more usefully you can do this to a shortcut which you can
> then reuse. However I have noticed that if you leave MCE running overnight
> then it has a scheduled 'reset' operation (supposedly to house clean) which
> causes it to revert to 4:3 until you quit and relaunch it using the
> shortcut.
>
> The command line instruction you would put in the shortcut is as follows
>
> %SystemRoot%\ehome\eshell.exe /widescreen
>
>

John
Thu May 01 01:54:00 PDT 2008

That command was for putting in the properties of a shortcut which launches
MCE. If you want to do it from the run command then you would browse for the
MCE application (which would fill in the path and program name) and then add
/widescreen after it (in the same box) and then tell it to run it.


On 30/4/08 20:15, in article
EC84E6C5-3849-48F2-ADEB-3009527816EB@microsoft.com, "Matt"
<Matt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
> I've had this machine for about 6 months, and my minimized screen was 16:9
> up until a month or so ago, so it may be only Vista related.
>
> Would I paste that shortcut in the 'run' command line?
> "John Lockwood" wrote:
>
>> On 28/4/08 03:52, in article
>> 86B90475-F312-40B5-9535-9F9C023BD1F9@microsoft.com, "Matt"
>> <Matt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When minimized in the corner of my monitor, the screen used to be wide
>>> screen
>>> 16: 9, now it is square 4: 3. I have tried to drag it by it's side to
>>> stretch
>>> it out, but it becomes a bigger square.
>>>
>>> No item under MCE settings seem to work either.
>>>
>>> Please, does anyone know how to fix?
>>
>> I don't know about Vista, but for MCE2005 the default mode for windowed
>> display (not full screen) is indeed 4:3 even if your screen/tv is a
>> widescreen one.
>>
>> It is possible to use a flag when launching MCE so that it uses 16:9 in
>> windowed mode. Either you can do this when using the 'run' command from the
>> start menu, or more usefully you can do this to a shortcut which you can
>> then reuse. However I have noticed that if you leave MCE running overnight
>> then it has a scheduled 'reset' operation (supposedly to house clean) which
>> causes it to revert to 4:3 until you quit and relaunch it using the
>> shortcut.
>>
>> The command line instruction you would put in the shortcut is as follows
>>
>> %SystemRoot%\ehome\eshell.exe /widescreen
>>
>>