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After system update, screen size very small

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Please help! I am pretty "newb" to linux and have no idea what to do.
I got the message "your system must reboot to complete updates" (or similar). After rebooting I am greeted with a giant login screen and my 2nd monitor isn't showing anymore.

After logging in, I can only see a part of my desktop -- one giant folder icon.
I can right click on the desktop but gives me no option to change resolution or anything.

Any help would be wonderful.

PS: I am able to get a terminal window open. Luckily that ONE folder had a terminal shortcut I had put there. So if this can help troubleshoot, please advise.

EDIT 2: This got me back to Unity working and a nice resolution and both monitors:

 apt-get purge nvidia-current

 rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

 reboot now

Unfortunately, now I guess I don't have any HW accel for my graphics card? :(

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Epilogue:
Since it all seems to be working now, I should share what I did. Probably not the best way, but since I'm a newb I just went with what I can find. :)

Downloaded latest driver for 64bit / Linux from nVidia site

Download and install linux-headers-3.5.0-19-generic

Open terminal, change directory to where the .run from nvidia is downloaded

In terminal chmod +x ... the nvidia .run file

Reboot into recovery and login to recovery terminal

Run this command so nVidia script can write to stuff sudo mount -o remount,rw /

Run the nVidia script itself sudo sh ./NVIDIA-...

Ignore the first "... script failed..." error. Select option to allow it to blacklist, mostly "yes", "agree", etc.

I think that's everything. I didn't think of this, but had I not had the shortcut on my desktop to get to terminal, I could have just rebooted into recovery mode to get the terminal and while googling found a hotkey to get there too (CTRL + ALT + F1?).

After this everything seems to be working. I used sudo nvidia-settings from terminal to rearrange the physical location of my monitors properly.

EDIT: This happened again after I updated my system...

I ran this command that I found here:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

...and then basically repeated the entire process.