Desktop's too small

For some reason, the amount of desktop visible on my monitor is really, really small- there's this thick, black frame around it and I can't seem to remove the frame. And I have no idea how it got that way, either. I couldn't find anything in "settings" that would fix it. anyone know why it looks like this and what I can do about it?

There are adjustments you can make to the monitor (read the user manual for your monitor) and you can change the display's resolution using the Displays preferences.

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babowa wrote:
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Greetings,
I am aware that this problem has been discussed, but in long and vague discussions that I had to sift deeply to find an answer. Therefore I am posting a clear message, as this problem can be very troublesome for someone who just received a Mac OS installation disk and cannot install it.
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Version française : Ce disque ne peut pas être configuré pour démarrer votre ordinateur.
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When I click on the icon for this drive, the warning message below states "Mac OS X cannot be installed on 'iMac HD', because this disk cannot be used to start up your computer." Obviously that's not true, since that's where the OS is installed.
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Edward,
That's the price of having a gazillion pixels!
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