One of the classic pieces of design misengineering has to be the positioning of the OK button on the display settings control panel for Windows-95, 98 and NT-4. If someone has played around with the font sizes, this can force the panel to be greater than 480 pixels high, forcing the OK button to be off the screen at 640 X 480 resolution. Furthermore, some display adapter control panels, especially in Windows-98, are greater than 480 pixels high even with normal fonts! So, to fix it, you go to the control panel, double click display, click the settings tab, move the slider over to the right to select a greater resolution, like say 800 x 600. All you have to do is to hit the OK button. But you can't get to the OK button because it's off the screen! Here's the workaround.
Choose the Windows operating system below for an appropriate display adapter control panel.


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98
NT4
W2K
OK, here's the trick. No matter which operating system you use, the buttons on the bottom are always "OK, Cancel, and Apply". You need to get to the one that says "OK". Use the TAB key on the left side of your computer to do so. Play around a bit with it. Notice that as you are doing this, a different button or field is either outlined by a dotted line or highlighted in blue. Next question: How do I know how many tabs to push to get to the OK button that I cannot see? Here's the answer: Tab to the last button or field you can see. Then count the number of times you have to push the tab key until you get a dotted line around "Background" at the top of the panel. Subtract 3 from that number. That is the number of times you will have to tab to get to the OK button when you return to the last button or field you can see. After you have tabbed to the right place, you simply hit the enter key and VOILA! Your display is now readjusted to the appropriate resolution and you didn't have to reinstall the operating system!
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