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Windows 8 on Acer Aspire One Netbook - Screen Resolution etc...

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I was anxious to see what real memory usage would look like on my low end netbook.  It was better than Windows 7!  Less than 500M.  One problem I had was the native resolution of my netbook is1024X600 and the will not load Windows Store applications at that resolution.  I found a registry setting however to get higher non-native resolutions: "Display1_DownScalingSupported".  As with any registry change make sure you back up the registry first before making changes.  I searched the registry and changed the value from 0 to 1 where I found it and restarted.  Now I can get 1024X768 and 1152X864.

Let me know if this helped you!

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  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2012
    thanks sooo much! i downloaded it and for the longest time lived with the apps not running but this worked thnx!

  • Anonymous
    November 06, 2012
    can you show me step by step how to do that screen resolution adjustment.......

  • Anonymous
    November 06, 2012
    Sure Eric! Note that making errant registry changes can disable your system so be extremely careful!  You are responsible for making and changes to your system. Here is how I did it: Windows Key + R brings up the Run dialog, type: Regedit Scroll to the top and click on 'Computer' From the menu above choose 'Edit' then 'Find' (or 'Ctrl + F') In the Find dialog type: Display1_DownScalingSupported Hit the Find Next button (it will search for that text and may take some time) When it finds the Key, click on the name in the right side and it will bring up a dialog that allows you to modify the value.  Change it to 1 Hit F3 to continue the search and change that value to 1 for each Display1_DownScalingSupported key found.

  • Anonymous
    December 26, 2012
    in comfort in using this resolution on net book buddy

  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2013
    What kind of windows 8 is for an acer aspire...64 or 32 bits? Gus

  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2013
    You would need to look up your model on the Acer website, look at the data sheet and see what it supports.  Regardless of what it supports however, I would recommend the 32 Bit OS because these machines do not have a lot of RAM.

  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2013
    Thank u very very much.

  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2013
    Love it ..... It works

  • Anonymous
    December 16, 2013
    worked for be but the quality got bad :(

  • Anonymous
    December 29, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2014
    what do you do for windows 8.1.  there is no Display1_DownScalingSupported key in the registry.

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2014
    hey do acer aspire one d255 support window 8.

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2014
    @zack.  You need to contact Acer to determine that!

  • Anonymous
    August 16, 2014
    Windows Key + R brings up the Run dialog, type: Regedit Scroll to the top and click on 'Computer' From the menu above choose 'Edit' then 'Find' (or 'Ctrl + F') In the Find dialog type: Display1_DownScalingSupported Hit the Find Next button (it will search for that text and may take some time) When it finds the Key, click on the name in the right side and it will bring up a dialog that allows you to modify the value.  Change it to 1 Hit F3 to continue the search and change that value to 1 for each Display1_DownScalingSupported key found. all are i do but iam ot sucses

  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2015
    although I enter the regedit  I could not find the key . and it says finished find through registry

  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2015
    @kugis if it is an Acer Aspire One it should be there.  When I get a chance I will grab that machine and see what the exact path is so you can try and add it.

  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2015
    @kugis, On my machine the regentry was here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlVideo{3F8615D2-DC34-40B8-8B7C-E82429F4B02F}�001 So you may be able to create an entry: Display1_DownScalingSupported and set it (as a DWORD). My guess is that if it was not there already then your graphics driver does not support it. About the quality...  Your display only has so many pixels.  This simply squishes the display and simulates that number of physical pixels.  No magic here.  You cannot get pixels that don't exist on your display so the tradeoff is the quality of the image as the adapter interpolates the display pixels.

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2015
    I didn't get it . I only have HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlVideo{03B30E1E-E593-4192-8D1B-933BDD77BF9E} HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlVideo{0B0A08F8-1B00-416C-81B6-85914BADC90C} HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlVideo{95399867-7FDC-4C37-A182-686EDC57803F} HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlVideo{DEB039CC-B704-4F53-B43E-9DD4432FA2E9}

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2015
    I download window 8 from internet so maybe it is because of that

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2015
    I only have HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlVideo{03B30E1E-E593-4192-8D1B-933BDD77BF9E} HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlVideo{0B0A08F8-1B00-416C-81B6-85914BADC90C} HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlVideo{95399867-7FDC-4C37-A182-686EDC57803F} HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlVideo{DEB039CC-B704-4F53-B43E-9DD4432FA2E9}