Mine covers the whole glass part of the monitor. What am I missing? What's going on out on the sides that don't fit on my monitor? Are there dancing girls? I keep trying to peer off to the side around the edge of the plastic, but I can't see anything going on back there.
At higher resolutions, the objects on the screen are smaller so you can fit more of them on the screen.
Well, on my work computer I might want to be able to see more of whatever spreadsheet I'm working on or at home, I might want to be able to see all of a photo I took without having to reduce its size. But it's a balance between lots of screen real estate vs actually being able to read/see what's on the screen.
Actually, they aren't really smaller. They are comprised of the same amount of pixels on any resolution. They just appear smaller because at higher resolution, your screen shows more pixels.
One option for backing up your files is to get a cheap hard drive and install it as a backup in an available slot. Then you can transfer and access files to there. And if your computer suddenly stops working and you need to take it somewhere to get it fixed you can remove the 2nd drive which has all your "movies" to avoid the embarassment of the computer technician and all of his tech buddies watching all your porn, and snickering as you leave the store.. No that this happened to me or anything.....
NOTE: The following is somewhat technical, and may not be correct (I haven't tested it). If you are using this for backup purposes, you will want to format the disk using FAT or FAT32 rather than NTFS. The reason for this is that NTFS encrypts files and if your main drive (the one with windows on it) dies, you will be unable to read the files (at least without a whole lot of trouble). As I said, I have never actually tried to do this, but I'm pretty sure it would not work.
-=- this should be a required investment for anyone who has a computer with anything on it that has any value. the best tactic is to get an external USB2.0 hard drive and copy your computer's "image" on that drive, so that if you get hit with viruses or anything really bad happens, like your drive fries, you have a duplicate OS and everything. since external drives in the 200GB range cost pennies a day (50¢ over the span of a year)... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002ER5B6/ref=nosim/102-5653173-5340969?n=172282 ...it only makes sense to have such an item in your office. there are programs, easy to use, like achronis true image... http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry17c?CID=194730&PN=5&SP=10007&SID=44905&PID=749247&CUR=840&DSP=&PGRP=0&ABCODE=&CACHE_ID=194730 ...that will allow you to create a duplicate image of what is on your computer. you can do this overnight...