Greetings:

My computer is a brand new Hewlett Packard 15.6" HD touch display notebook (just purchased from Wal-Mart), using Windows 10, connected by HDMI cable to my VIZIO Series D 32" HD wide screen television (a surprise Christmas gift), and using a Microsoft Wireless 850 keyboard and mouse (purchased this past Christmas).

I'm connected to the Internet via a wi-fi modem supplied by STRATA, which I think is atrociously slow, but as far as I'm aware, no alternative is available.

My BOINC projects are, SETI@Home, Einstein@Home, LHC@Home, POGS, Citizen Science Grid, World Community Grid, and WUProp@Home.

I am a member of Team SETI.USA

Although screensavers are no longer necessary, I enjoy watching mine whenever I'm not watching television.

I just wish the BOINC clients would format their screensavers (and/or create them where none exists) so that they would automatically resize to accommodate different screen resolutions.

Currently, when I want to observe my screensavers, I must change my display settings to 1366 X 768, which makes all of the fonts and icons very tiny, but does allow the BOINC screensavers to fit completely onto the screen.

Then, if I want to do anything with my computer, in order to improve visibility, I must reset the screen resolution to 1920 X 1080, which then requires a reboot.

Returning to the screensaver, I must reset the screen resolution to 1366 X 768, requiring another reboot.

Maybe the technical or management personnel at BOINC could inform the BOINC clients, and suggest they fix the problem, and of course, for BOINC clients which don't include a screensaver, suggest that they might create one.

Thank you.

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John Robert Mallernee, KB3KWS
Disabled War Veteran, United States Army
Ashley Valley Shadows
Vernal, Utah 84078

If the project has no screensaver you get a BOINc info screen of a task in progress that IIRC bounces around a black background. Think the info screen every so often changes to a different task in progress on multi cores.

Reboot I never had to to change resolution... on the fly with some occasional blinking. Ill test the WCG when back on a 1900 plus 24" and see what comes out, but cant remember to ever have to change the resolution... simply scaling to display size.

Ttyl

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@ SEKEROB2, Et Alii:

What I'm changing is the Display slide which controls the size of text, apps, and other items, as I switch back and forth between 100% and 175%.

To observe the various screensavers, I must set the slide at 100%.

For improved visibility when doing anything else on the computer, I must set the slide at 175%.

Whenever that slide is changed, a reboot is required.

I know about the BOINC screensaver, and it poses no problem, regardless of screen resolution.

But, I enjoy watching the SETI screensaver, the Einstein screensaver (my favorite - - - it is the most beautiful of all of the screensavers), and the current World Community Grid screensaver, which is Mapping Cancer Markers.

At the moment, it's really the Einstein screensaver that won't fit into the screen when it's set at 175%.

The Einstein screensaver only fits into the screen when it's set at 100%.

Since I run several different projects, all of this stuff changes from time to time, depending on which screensaver is showing, or whether the particular project even has a screensaver, which quite a few of them don't.

Thank you.

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John Robert Mallernee, KB3KWS
Disabled War Veteran, United States Army
Ashley Valley Shadows
Vernal, Utah 84078

Can only speak for WCG, alternating from time to time, the graphics on my 1900x1080 set display fill the screen vertically and leave a black bar left and right. The text in the graphics is positively big.

Took some digging on W10-14372sc1, but eventually found Custom sizing, to scale, which is set at 100%. If changing the percent it asks for a sign out, not a boot. Set it to 150%, applied, signed-out and in. Everything is big, text and all. Set Screensaver preview and WCG-UGM is scaled exactly the same as when on 100% i.e. the resolution setting has no effect. I know WCG uses the v7 API for the graphics. Seems like you have to ask at the relevant projects.

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@ SEKEROB2, Et Alii:

When I click on SIGN OUT, my computer reboots.

My screen resolution is different from yours, for my computer screen completely and properly fills my wide screen television set, with no black bars on either side.

Thank you.

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John Robert Mallernee, KB3KWS
Disabled War Veteran, United States Army
Ashley Valley Shadows
Vernal, Utah 84078

To mephasize, only the screensaver does the -vertical- fill and horizontal limiting, probably about 1200. The rest of the OS/applications fills the display.

Maybe signout=boot is another setting in Windows, but that's a guess. Did find an article by someone who reported same, but it's not supposed to

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/sign-out-causes-laptop-to-reboot/e0d26e87-3dbc-4762-9896-6dea3ca98792?auth=1

Maybe your display drivers are borked?

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@ SEKEROB2, Et Alii:

I have just discovered an alternative to constantly having to sign out and reboot my system every time I want to have text and images on my computer screen be large enough for me to see and work with.

After all, I'm an old man, with failing eyesight and hearing, and difficulty using my hands and fingers.

I use Mozilla Firefox as my default web browser, and one of the options is being able to enlarge the screen.

By doing so, I don't have to sign out or reboot in order to enjoy watching the Einstein@Home screensaver.

Problem solved.

Thank you.

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John Robert Mallernee, KB3KWS
Disabled War Veteran, United States Army
Ashley Valley Shadows
Vernal, Utah 84078

Yes, in Firefox and probably other browsers too, hold left or right button, depends on personal settings, then mouse-wheel for bigger/smaller. On my laptop mousepad, hold right bottom of pad area, then slide finger from right bottom diagonally to zoom-in, from left top diagonally down, to zoom-out.

Here's another tip. There's an add-on like NoSquint/NoSquint Plus, which can be made to remember "per-website" what your preferred zoom is.

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