Monitor widescreen causes image distortion

My new 19" monitor causes images in Photoshop to appear elongated, and when I go to print, the display showing what should represent a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper looks more like an 8 1/2 x 8 1/2. Can I do anything about this?
Ed

Ed,
In general, setting the screen resolution of the display to match the "native" resolution of the display will get rid of the distortion. For example, if the display has a native resolution of 1280 x 1024, you should set the screen resolution to the same. Setting it to a lower resolution (e.g. 1024 x 768) could also get rid of the distortion, but images will look fuzzier.
In Windows XP, you set the resolution via Start > Control Panel > Display (Vista is similar).

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