Welcome to stevienova.com. Since 2004, I have enjoyed blogging about programming, business intelligence, SharePoint, Microsoft, Google, Apple and everything to do with technology. Thoughts on life, the world or my new favorite brew, may also be shared. I currently work at Trek Bicycle Corporation, managing both the BI team and .NET software dev groups. The opinions on this blog are solely my own.
I live in Sun Prairie, WI with my girlfriend and our 2 year old daughter. Besides my love for family and technology, I am passionate about music. I play the piano, guitar and I also sing. Everyday I learn something new, and I hope to share it with you.I bought a new Dell machine a couple years ago for the sole purpose of doing Windows Development (my main home machine is a MacBook Pro). Everything is fine on the windows machine, except the dang monitor. By default, ATI and their “Catalyst Control Center” – which I have found to be utter garbage over the years, decides to set to underscan at 8.5% by default. Which leaves you with a big black margin around your main desktop from the edge of your monitor.
I had this all fixed a long time ago, but Windows Update had an update for the driver, which updated the CCC from ATI, which was completely wacked. Wouldn’t even let me set all the settings I used to be able to set.
I went and found the updated CCC at their site and installed over the top, and now could set the overscan/underscan to 0%. It is beyond me why this isn’t the default setting to begin with. Back when I first got it I had to search around to figure this out, many other people have the same issue. Not sure why they don’t set it to 0% out of the box. Anyway, here is the place you can change it:
