It depends on the video card drivers that came with your laptop -- some give you the option to stick with a fixed aspect ratio, stretch to fill the screen, or keep the exact size.
Poke around in the driver settings (or control program, like ATI catalyst, Intel display manager, nvidia whatever)
On a select few laptops you may also find display features like that selecteble through the computer BIOS. (On my desktop, I can set the aspect ratio settings through the menu on my monitor itself, telling it not to stretch)
But bottom line: depending on what video card and laptop you have, you may be out of luck and be stuck with the stretched graphics.
Now, since this is a game that you wrote yourself, this does bring up an important point: When writing software these days, it's a pretty big deal to handle widescreen displays by your program as well. Worst case, allow the user to set a widescreen resolution and draw black bars on the sides -- but if you simply ignore widescreen as an option, you'll have MANY users that run into the same problem since the vast majority of new computers (and especially laptops) these days are sold with widescreen displays.
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