Desktop screen resolution for 22"

[Rudra.J]

Is this monitor plugged into a vga port or dvi?
Unless at native resolution lcd monitors do this when they're plugged in via a vga cable. If you don't have a dvi cable, get one, if you don't have a dvi output on your computer you'll need a new graphics card that has one.

If this is the case don't feel silly No one told me and I exchanged 2 monitors as "defective" for exactly this problem (since it was my first lcd monitor) before I learned that this was normal and lcd's work best with dvi.

Yup this is correct. DVI gives the best performance for LCD monitors. Any obviously, dont feel silly about asking anything, cause nobody got the knowledge as a birthday present...

[Expertz]

The best resolution is usually the highest one that your video card supports that doesn't make the text on your screen too small to read. With LCD monitors it is best to use the native resolution. The higher the resolution, the more pixels your screen will display. The more pixels you have, the more visual space you'll have, so you can see more cells in a spreadsheet, or see more windows side-by-side. In the Windows display settings, slide the slider all the way to the right and that will be the native resolution. Also, turning on cleartype will improve the quality of the text. In the Appearance tab, press the Effects button and select cleartype from the fonts drop down box.