>>>Just bought new mini laptop 13.3 with optimal screen resolution 1920x1080. However I need to change that setting to 1280x800 to view all data in VFP window.
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>>>Is there an initial setting I can change in VFP settings or set up programmatically so that when I start VFP it will change the screen resolution to 1280x800 either for VFP alone or for the whole laptop configuration.
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>>>tnx k
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>>Could it be that rather than setting the video resolution, you want to be changing the DPI setting? I'm guessing that in 1920x1080 resolution you're getting a larger DPI setting (making the text effectively larger).
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>I see what you are saying now Naota. There is in fact a separate adjustment for scale in windows 10 that allows me to select 1920x1080 and set a custom scaling from 150% (which is recommended) to 125% -- by doing this, the window vfp opens into can be viewed now in its entirety which allows me to view multiple windows contained within the main vfp window. And the resolution setting allows the full laptop screen to be used.
>So you have in fact solved the main part of the problem Naota - with thanks for that.
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>I am getting the impression that doing this as an overall function applied only to vfp and setting it programmatically is not an option.

Scaling is a global setting in Windows and can play havoc with form designs. Default as you've no doubt found is 100%. Forms sometimes still look OK at 125% but 150% usually has problems.

When you set your screen to 1280x800, that's a 16:10 width/height aspect ratio. So, you get a little more height for the width. Full HD 1920x1080 is 16:9 aspect ratio, with a little less height, which is why you're seeing the bottoms cut off.

I would experiment with making _Screen.Height in your main VFP window somewhat bigger. If you do that while leaving the width the same, you should be able to avoid the cutting off.