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Can't change display settings
Hi. My pc will not let me change the settings, which is driving me crazy. I
need my pixels set at 800x600, from 640x480. I know HOW to do this, but after re-starting, it just reverts to the 640. This happened about a week ago. Please don't suggest system restore, because hasn't been working for some time either. When I try to restore, it freezes up, then states that no changes were made to my pc. No $#@! Furthermore, I cannot create a restore point. Any suggestions, especially about changing the settings?? Thanks in advance for any help. |
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Two suggestions. Fix system restore as it is a good way of resolving such
problems. You problem is quite possibly the result of not having installed the 290700 hotfix or alternatively that you installed it and then reinstalled Win Me over itself and thus restored the original broken version of smgr.dll. You can do this by downloading and installing the 290700 patch from the link found at KB290700 - "Checkpoints that you create after September 8, 2001 do not restore your computer" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=290700). Turning to your main problem. Your problem is probably one of display drivers. First try booting to Safe Mode, opening the Device Manager, (System Properties | Device Manager) and delete all entries in the section Display Adapters and then reboot back into Normal Mode and let Win Me redetect your hardware and reinstall your video drivers. Once complete you should be able to alter the resolution and colour depth to meet your requirements. If this still doesn't work go to your graphic card manufacturer's web site and download updated Win Me compatible drivers for your graphics card and then install them. The web site should give details of how to do this. -- Mike Maltby mrscadillac wrote: Hi. My pc will not let me change the settings, which is driving me crazy. I need my pixels set at 800x600, from 640x480. I know HOW to do this, but after re-starting, it just reverts to the 640. This happened about a week ago. Please don't suggest system restore, because hasn't been working for some time either. When I try to restore, it freezes up, then states that no changes were made to my pc. No $#@! Furthermore, I cannot create a restore point. Any suggestions, especially about changing the settings?? Thanks in advance for any help. |
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Thank you Mike, I will try this immediately. |
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Thank you soooo much. I've got a normal screen again!! My boys are very excited and we are all greatful. I did follow your instructions pertaining to the system restore, but a message appeared. "Rstrui has caused an error in Kernel32.dll" I have no idea what this means!! Thank you again, you've been VERY helpful. |
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That's good news - that you've got your preferred screen settings back but
not so good about the system restore error. I've seen a few others report the same error message when using system restore and am not certain as to what causes it. I'd start by be resetting system restore, clearing down the restore archive and then starting over and see if that helps. Disable System Restore (System Properties | Performance | File System | Troubleshooting and check "Disable System Restore" and then immediately reboot. Now repeat the procedure but this time uncheck "Disable System Restore" remembering again to immediately reboot. Interestingly but not necessarily of much help I can't help but note that a number of the reports of the error you are seeing were also experiencing video problems like yourself. Please let us know how you get on. Cheers, -- Mike Maltby mrscadillac wrote: Thank you soooo much. I've got a normal screen again!! My boys are very excited and we are all greatful. I did follow your instructions pertaining to the system restore, but a message appeared. "Rstrui has caused an error in Kernel32.dll" I have no idea what this means!! Thank you again, you've been VERY helpful. |
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"Mike M" wrote: That's good news - that you've got your preferred screen settings back but not so good about the system restore error. I've seen a few others report the same error message when using system restore and am not certain as to what causes it. I'd start by be resetting system restore, clearing down the restore archive and then starting over and see if that helps. Disable System Restore (System Properties | Performance | File System | Troubleshooting and check "Disable System Restore" and then immediately reboot. Now repeat the procedure but this time uncheck "Disable System Restore" remembering again to immediately reboot. Interestingly but not necessarily of much help I can't help but note that a number of the reports of the error you are seeing were also experiencing video problems like yourself. Please let us know how you get on. Cheers, -- Mike Maltby mrscadillac wrote: Thank you soooo much. I've got a normal screen again!! My boys are very excited and we are all greatful. I did follow your instructions pertaining to the system restore, but a message appeared. "Rstrui has caused an error in Kernel32.dll" I have no idea what this means!! Thank you again, you've been VERY helpful. |
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Hi again. My system restore appears to be fine now, and checkpoints have been
created. Thanks again for your help. Since it's obvious that you know what you're doing, do you have any idea how I can restore my Volume Control, which will not open anymore? It's not a big deal to me, but my boys like to have sound when they're playing games. |
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mrscadillac wrote:
Hi again. My system restore appears to be fine now, and checkpoints have been created. Thanks again for your help. Since it's obvious that you know what you're doing, do you have any idea how I can restore my Volume Control, which will not open anymore? It's not a big deal to me, but my boys like to have sound when they're playing games. That's good news about system restore. Did you do anything other than possibly reboot? Volume Control. Two suggestions for now. 1) Control Panel | Sounds & Multimedia. Check that "Show volume control on the taskbar" which is found on the General tab is still checked. If not, check, then click Apply and then OK. If that doesn't work then, 2) Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Windows Setup | Multimedia - Details, and check that "Volume Control" is checked at the bottom of the list. If not, check, OK, Apply and then OK out and reboot. If it is checked, uncheck, OK and then Apply and OK out. Reboot and now add back "Volume Control" by checking the entry, and then click OK, Apply and finally OK and once again reboot. -- Mike Maltby |
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The first suggestion did not work through sounds and media...volume was checked but not highlighted so I couldn't do anything anyway. So I tried suggestion #2, rebooted, then went in again to re-check volume, but got this message... "sndvol32.cnt not found" and it's requesting a windows me disk (which I never received with my computer) to continue. Can I use the emergency boot disk? |
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Oh, and tried out the system restore thinking my volume may come back. It started, and within a few seconds, the pc turned off without finishing the restoration. When pc came back on, System Restore said no changes were made to my computer at this time. Weird. That's the same message I've previously been getting whenever I've tried SR. Oh well. It might just be time for a new system altogether, huh? lol |
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