Windows XP Display

Posted: 05-14-2004, 06:06 PM

Shannon

Guest
Posts: n/a

XP user is having display problems. Display is abnormally large, everything from his icons to menus and taskbar. I went into his display settings and he only has Medium 16 bit option for Color quality and you cannot change his screen resolution from 800 x 600. Also within Advanced setting, the DPI setting is greyed out, so you cannot change (althouggh it is set to normal size). Under Advanced Appearance, I could change the size of each item, but isn't there some type of all inclusive default display setting that can be used? User says he came into the office and his computer was like this. The only change made to his system recently is that I scheduled and automatich reboot script to run nightly, not sure why that would effect his display, it didn't the other Windows XP users. Please help!

Responses to "Windows XP Display"

Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)

Guest
Posts: n/a

Re: Windows XP Display

Posted: 05-14-2004, 11:09 PM

It sounds as though the drivers for the graphics card are either corrupted
or need to be updated. First, try reinstalling the drivers for the graphics
card, if that fails to resolve it, go to the card manufacturer's website,
download the latest drivers and make not of any installation instructions
for those drivers.

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

"Shannon" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96734E80-97C7-4F8B-B045-925E7A0AB31D@microsoft.com...

> XP user is having display problems. Display is abnormally large,
> everything from his icons to menus and taskbar. I went into his display
> settings and he only has Medium 16 bit option for Color quality and you
> cannot change his screen resolution from 800 x 600. Also within Advanced
> setting, the DPI setting is greyed out, so you cannot change (althouggh it
> is set to normal size). Under Advanced Appearance, I could change the
> size of each item, but isn't there some type of all inclusive default
> display setting that can be used? User says he came into the office and
> his computer was like this. The only change made to his system recently
> is that I scheduled and automatich reboot script to run nightly, not sure
> why that would effect his display, it didn't the other Windows XP users.
> Please help!

LinkBack

Thread Tools

Display Modes

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads You may post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts BB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On HTML code is Off Trackbacks are On Pingbacks are On Refbacks are On

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
VPC display freezes on 2nd display upon shifting focus from primary display	condimentman	Mac Virtual PC	4	02-24-2006 05:17 PM
windows XP display		Windows XP Help & Support	2	02-04-2004 06:21 PM
Windows XP display	Peter	Windows XP Video	1	01-27-2004 08:37 PM
Windows XP display	TheNewGuy	Windows XP	2	07-21-2003 03:05 AM
windows xp display	Clarence	Windows XP Basics	2	07-15-2003 11:49 AM