Windows 7 Screen Resolution on Macbook Pro with Mavericks

I am running a Macbook Pro with 16gb memory and a 1tb disk.
I also running Parallels 9 Build 9.0.24229.
In my Windows XP VM I have a screen resolution of 1280x800 and everything looks great.
In my Windows 7 Ultimate, it says I have a screen resolution of 1280x800 but it also says
that it is using a "Generic NON-PNP Monitor" which isn't the same as what Windows XP says.
I have tried to everything I can think of to get the display to look like the XP version. i.e, a
desktop where the icons and programs fit. The icons a larger than on my Windows XP VM and
when I start a program it takes up alot more of the display than what it does on Windows XP.

Any suggestions anyone?

William

 

Ignore the monitor type.

Right click Desktop -> select Screen Resolution -> click "Make text and other items larger or smaller" -> click "Smaller - 100%"

 

It is already at that. It just seems that I can get more on the screen under Windows XP than under Windows 7.
I would have thought that I would be using a Parallels monitor with Parallels tools installed and not the
"Generic NON-PNP Monitor"

 

Can you post a screenshot to show the differences between Windows XP and Windows 7? Also, post a screenshot of the virtual machine configuration for Video.

Compare the Window Color and Appearance size settings between Windows XP and Windows 7.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/29244/customize-the-title-bar-and-other-system-fonts-in-windows-7/


All the devices of a virtual machine are emulated. A virtual machine can emulate any device even if the host computer doesn't have that device. A virtual machine may emulate a real device (something that existed on a real PC) or the virtual machine may choose to create a device specific to a virtual machine.

For video, Parallels emulates a virtual machine specific device called "Parallels Display Adapter" using PCI vendor id 1AB8, device id 4005.

Parallels attaches an emulated "Generic Non-PnP Monitor" to the virtual display adapter. The EDID of the virtual display contains information identifying it as a Parallels display with product name "Parallels Vu". I don't know if there's a mechanism in Windows to display that information or to translate that identifying information into a proper display name like Mac OS X does.

Mac OS X uses the files in /System/Library/Displays/Overrides/ to override or add certain information to a display given the display's vendor and product ID's. 610 is the vendor ID for Apple displays.

 

Hi, please get familiar with this article: http://kb.parallels.com/en/114700 and try to enable 'More Space' or 'Best for Retina' options.