My display is smaller than my screen.

The display on my laptop screen is smaller than my actual screen. There is about and inch an a half between the edge of the display and the edge of the screen.

What actually happened was I was playing the Sims 3 and the screen went blank. When it came back, it didn't fit the screen anymore and was as described above. I don't know what happened- I wasn't connected to the internet or anything.

My screen is normally set to 1024x768. If I set it to 1280x800, it goes back to normal and if I set it to 800x600 it gets even smaller. I know the obvious answer is leave it as 1280x800 (which is also the origional resolution), but I would prefer it to be 1024x768. I've never had any problems with this resolution before and if there's any way I can set it as my resolution and have it full screen I would be really grateful.

I know nothing about computers so if anyone has any idea how to do this, could they please tell me in the simplest terms possible?

Thank you.

By the way, my laptop is HP.

what happen if you "right click" on the desktop go to "properties" and settings tabb, can u put it back to the required resolution?

It doesn't work- it goes to the resolution I want, but it's still too small to fit the screen.

ok the game screwed up your display driver, uninstall and reinstall the graphic driver, it is recommended to download the graphic driver from your machine vendor site and get the exact model.. that should refresh all and fix the issue

Cheers
Ash