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  • I'm not sure what I did but one morning I woke up and the display on my macbook pro is larger than my screen is. When I move my arrow around I can reach the areas not shown but it is very annoying. It's not my resolution, I already tried that and changing it just made everything blurry. Also, I saw on a forum that if you press control and zoom out with your two fingers it will put it back to normal but all that did was change the size of my icons on the desktop. Please help if you can!

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    Quit everything that is running, except Finder, by using the Force Quit utility - press cmd+opt+escape to access this. Quit that too, then click on your desktop. Try the ctrl+zoom out technique again. If this doesn't work, then open System Preferences. If you have a MacBook Pro 13" then the correct screen resolution is 1280x800 ONLY. If you have a MacBook Pro 15" from BEFORE 2008, the correct resolution is 1440x900 ONLY. If you have a MacBook Pro 15" from AFTER 2008, the correct resolution will either be 1440x900 OR 1680x1050. If you have a MacBook Pro 17" from BEFORE 2009, the correct resolution is 1680x1050 ONLY. If you have a MacBook Pro 17" from AFTER 2009, the correct resolution is 1920x1200 ONLY. If this still doesn't work, then reboot your MacBook Pro. As soon as your hear the chime, hold down cmd+opt+p+r. Keep holding them down until the computer restarts a second time. If you see the Apple come on screen after pressing the key combination the first restart, then you missed the correct time and must restart again. This will refresh your PRAM and should resolve any issue not fixed by the above. Best of luck

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Try pressing Command + Option + Minus button.

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Quit everything that is running, except Finder, by using the Force Quit utility - press cmd+opt+escape to access this. Quit that too, then click on your desktop. Try the ctrl+zoom out technique again. If this doesn't work, then open System Preferences. If you have a MacBook Pro 13" then the correct screen resolution is 1280x800 ONLY. If you have a MacBook Pro 15" from BEFORE 2008, the correct resolution is 1440x900 ONLY. If you have a MacBook Pro 15" from AFTER 2008, the correct resolution will either be 1440x900 OR 1680x1050. If you have a MacBook Pro 17" from BEFORE 2009, the correct resolution is 1680x1050 ONLY. If you have a MacBook Pro 17" from AFTER 2009, the correct resolution is 1920x1200 ONLY. If this still doesn't work, then reboot your MacBook Pro. As soon as your hear the chime, hold down cmd+opt+p+r. Keep holding them down until the computer restarts a second time. If you see the Apple come on screen after pressing the key combination the first restart, then you missed the correct time and must restart again. This will refresh your PRAM and should resolve any issue not fixed by the above. Best of luck

Will

Samungs are pretty cool and I guess many people use them as alternative because they have great sharpness and models look sophisticated. I am not sure but I think Mac/MacBooks uses the Samsung screen as well (along with hard-disks)

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