I'm very sorry, Virtualbrenda but I have read your question recently. How LadyCF wrote, my netbook allows a much higher display resolution.

I am not an expert but I know you can also put the display resolution of 1024 x 600 to 1024 x 768, if you allow the unsupported resolutions. And if you use Windows XP.
It is possible that you have to change this setting again for the other applications.

Another possibility would be to connect an external monitor to the netbook ...

I hope this helps a little!