The game needs at least 1280 x 1024 resolution, otherwise, as you observed, you can?t see the buttons down there.
I had it running on my similar laptop by using some kind of virtual monitor. I was just playing around in the systems menue, and managed to set the thing to a higher resolution than the screen was able to display.
Everytime the mousepointer went over the lower/upper edge, the picture on the screen would "scroll" up or down, to follow the pointer.
I?m not sure you can understand what I am trying to say, as I am having a hard time to understand it myself
As far as I remember I did it by right clicking on a free spot on the screen --> Settings (or something along that line, as I have a german Windows) --> Settings
There I can set up a Multi-Monitor-System. By fooling around with those settings I managed the trick. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable with PCs (I just hit keys and press buttons and pray the bloody thing does as I want it to) can help and explain it better.