Wall-mounted jukebox Screen Size help

[normchorus]

Howdy. Alex here. It's been a long time since I've posted here. Happy
to see that the dream is still alive (and so is my MAME machine web site,
www.ysib.com/zoom ... eh, eh).

I recently happenstanced upon a free flatscreen lcd monitor. I've been waiting for this day for several years, because I knew that as soon as I scored a free lcd flatscreen monitor that I would build a wall-mounted mp3 jukebox to compliment my arcade machine.

So I built a really cool art deco-y shell for it which looks like an old timey transistor radio face, with knobs and the keywiz and the like. But my problem is this:

I don't want to cut a 17" hole in my design to fit the 17" flatscreen. I just want to utilize about 6" of screen and cut a 6" hole.

On all of my previous CRT monitors, there is an option on the actual monitor to shrink the picture size inside the screen - so that the image appears in miniature in the middle of the screen, and the entire perimeter is black. On my lcd flatscreen, I can't find such an option.

Is there a windows setting or program that will shrink the size of the screen?

thanks a lot you guys!!

By the way, I really like all the cool projects everyone is making.
What a creative community!

[GadgetGeek]

Could you just pick juke software that supports skinning and create a skin that puts everything you want within your 6" cutout?

[normchorus]

That's a really good idea, and it's probably what I'll do if
I can't figure out how to shrink the screen size.

Thanks for the idea.

[ahofle]

I answered your post in the monitors forum, but I'll mention it here too.  See if your monitor has a 'no scaling' option in the on screen menu (it may be called something like 'zoom' too).  Then set a lower resolution so it will only fill the middle of the LCD.