Ive got the laptop connected to the TV with an HDMI cable (HDMI output on both items), everything is great apart from the picture on the TV is to wide, the TV wont let me change the size and the laptop is Vista which ive not got a scooby how to use.

How do i go about changing the screen size, also how do i make the screen saver/desktop stay off (when im watching anything it comes up every 10 mins).

 

It seems many TV's and computers (be them PC's or lappy's) have problems with overscan when connected via HDMI. If your laptop has a VGA output on it, and you TV has a VGA input, try that as most times VGA to VGA works perfectly - just for some reason HDMI overscans...

Screen size (I pressume you mean resolution on the computer) should be changeable by right clicking the desktop and selecting properties - or going to control panel > display > settings (I don't have Vista so can't tellyou for 100% sure) but this probably won't change your situation - it's the overscan to do with the HDMI transfer thats the problem.

As for screensaver, what player on the lappy are you using? Windows Media Player? If so, go to TOOLS > OPTIONS and click the PLAYER tab, and DE-select (as in un-tick) the ALLOW SCREEN SAVER DURING PLAYBACK option.

If you use VLC media player (if you don't, you should - much MUCH better for video playback than WMP) it should disallow the screen saver during playback by default.