My monitor has a option built into it to use black bars at the sides automatically with 4:3 resolutions. Maybe you should bring up the built in settings menu in your monitor (using the buttons on the monitor itself) and look for a 4:3 option. (If it has menus) Mine has to be running a 4:3 resolutio...

What would be ideal is if Nvidia actually fixed their broken drivers. There is an option to disable scaling in their control panel, but it's broken for 8800 series (and others) boards, and has been so for over 3 years. But anyway, switching it "on the fly" using the hotkeys as you suggeste...

There doesn't seem to be any. Aspect correction doesn't function in Full Screen mode. You can check it, but the picture in Full Throttle (only game I own) stays stretched. So, thinking this option only works in windowed mode, I looked for a way to get a large (1920x1080 on my widescreen monitor) win...