Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2017 May 9

= May 9 =

Instructing laptop to not use top of screen
Hi. I cracked the corner of my laptop screen, and an inch is now blacked out all the way across the top, making it hard to use the menus. Until I have the chance to replace the screen, is there a workaround? I was thinking of somehow instructing the computer to not use the top of the screen, the way a drive will avoid bad sectors. Is there an app for that, or something in the computer prefs? (I'm running Windows on an Acer E5.)

Thanks — kwami (talk) 22:43, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Try this. I've never used it myself, so let me know if it works for you. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants   Tell me all about it.  22:53, 9 May 2017 (UTC)


 * A browse of results through Google pulled up a number of solutions to prevent windowed applications from using certain areas of the screen, but I doubt that would solve the problems with using menus/toolbars at the top of the screen. Some fiddling with custom resolutions may work - see Alcherin (talk) 22:59, 9 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much! Out of the three (DesktopCoral, GridMove and Sizer -- for when people are searching or reading this in the archives), hopefully at least one will work on my system. — kwami (talk) 00:03, 10 May 2017 (UTC)


 * DesktopCoral works perfectly so far; haven't tried the others. It moved my desktop icons out of the way, F11 only opens a window in the good part of the screen, and it should come up at startup. — kwami (talk) 02:13, 10 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Glad to hear it! The site said it was for use with another program, which looks like a hardware state monitoring program. I'm actually planning on giving the two of them a shot on one of my older systems to see how they work, myself. My main desktop is currently lacking any overclocking (I can overclock the memory, CPU and GPU), so a good monitoring setup for when I finally pull the trigger on it would be nice. I'm planning on seeing how far I can push it with high-volume air cooling. Not too far I expect, but decent water coolers are cheap if I need them. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants   Tell me all about it.  13:22, 10 May 2017 (UTC)


 * You might also use an external monitor, when home. StuRat (talk) 18:13, 10 May 2017 (UTC)