Can you make it so that?

There is a way to get rid of the forum navigation thing on the left. I only have a 17" monitor so I need all the space I can get

Heh... a 17 inch monitor? And you need more space? Um.. try changing your screen resolution.

Right-click anywhere on your desktop (but not on an icon)
Select "Properties"
Click the "Settings" tab
Play with the resolution settings. On a 15-inch laptop screen, my resolution is 1024x768 and it works just fine.

I tried that and it does work, as I suspected it would. (smaller font) Not my area of expertise; however, I do seem to recall that using a higher screen resolution uses up more system resources, causing a slightly slower machine.

not true unless you're using higher resolution in gaming ... for surfing and browsing web sites, changing the resolution doesn't cause any system slowdown at all...

unless its like a p2 266 with 4 meg onboard video ram.

back then ocean the maximum was, if you were lucky, 1024x768, still used today. I use 1024x768 on my intel overdrived 486 ("overdrived" to 50 mhz) and it runs fine. it has 24 megs of ram, and a 4 meg ISA video card. my 486 pwnz your pentium 2! lol

Originally Posted by Shalome

Heh... a 17 inch monitor? And you need more space? Um.. try changing your screen resolution.

Right-click anywhere on your desktop (but not on an icon)
Select "Properties"
Click the "Settings" tab
Play with the resolution settings. On a 15-inch laptop screen, my resolution is 1024x768 and it works just fine.

Yes I am aware that changing my resolution will give me more space. I already use 1024x768 resolution... it works, but It's still anoying having 1/4th of the page taken up by something I never use. It's ok though I'm getting used to it.

It's closer to 1/6th of the page. And sorry, it's not going away anytime soon, as far as I know.

Thats the reason I switched to Classic skin ..But it has some icons missing ..

Hello

If you think that going into a high resolution on your monitor is slower, try altering the colour depth to 16 bit and not 32 bit, also a 17 in monitor can handle 1280 x 1024 max resolution, which navigation bar do you mean, is it the internet tv radio bar, if so you can disable that by going into properties then web on windows 98, if in windows xp you go into properties desktop tab then customize desktop near bottom left of the box you opened, then on the next box that comes up go to tab web then untick the web pages then press ok, that gets rid of bars on the desktop, now if it is the toolbar with the start button on you can either move it to any side of the screen or hide it from view, when you have a window up.

Regards

Andrew

Originally Posted by Andrew7689

Hello

If you think that going into a high resolution on your monitor is slower, try altering the colour depth to 16 bit and not 32 bit, also a 17 in monitor can handle 1280 x 1024 max resolution, which navigation bar do you mean, is it the internet tv radio bar, if so you can disable that by going into properties then web on windows 98, if in windows xp you go into properties desktop tab then customize desktop near bottom left of the box you opened, then on the next box that comes up go to tab web then untick the web pages then press ok, that gets rid of bars on the desktop, now if it is the toolbar with the start button on you can either move it to any side of the screen or hide it from view, when you have a window up.

Regards

Andrew

No, none of that had anything to do w/ what I was posting about. :\

Originally Posted by it_waaznt_me

Thats the reason I switched to Classic skin ..But it has some icons missing ..

Ah, good idea.

Originally Posted by TheBends0

Ah, good idea.

Wait, no it wasn't. This one has the same problem.

I'm not sure what the "problem" is your seeing here. The vast majority of websites have a navigation menu. At 1024/768 and maximized you should have no bottom scrollbar.

Is it just, "oh noes i see something i don't use much" ?