Resolution Reset on Startup

Andy · External Since: Jun 05, 2006 Posts: 83

I have a 1280x1024 monitor. Every time I start Windows Vista, my screen
resolution automatically resets itself to 640x480. I have no idea why, but I
have to change it back every time i start Windows. I've looked around, but I
seem to be the only one I know of who has this problem. Does anyone know how
I can solve this?

Claudia · External Since: Mar 10, 2007 Posts: 2

"Andy" wrote:

> I have a 1280x1024 monitor. Every time I start Windows Vista, my screen
> resolution automatically resets itself to 640x480. I have no idea why, but I
> have to change it back every time i start Windows. I've looked around, but I
> seem to be the only one I know of who has this problem. Does anyone know how
> I can solve this?

I am having the same problem. I have a 3 month old Dell laptop and the
resolution keeps changing. At times the screen will go black in the middle of
working and changes the resolution. If you find a solution to this let me
know.

Harlan · External Since: Apr 22, 2007 Posts: 1

I have the same problem as well. I have a 1440X900 screen that sometimes
resets to a lower resolution upon startup. My computer is an HP Pavilion
DV9000, and I am using Windows Vista. Anyone know what is going on?

"Andy" wrote:

> I have a 1280x1024 monitor. Every time I start Windows Vista, my screen
> resolution automatically resets itself to 640x480. I have no idea why, but I
> have to change it back every time i start Windows. I've looked around, but I
> seem to be the only one I know of who has this problem. Does anyone know how
> I can solve this?

chgo22phx · External Since: Jan 11, 2009 Posts: 1

I have a friend who kept having this problem and we kept resetting the
display settings. I finally found this solution on
www.askmetafilter.com:

I had the same problem, and according to my googling, so have
many, many others. Dell tech support was sure that installing new
drivers would fix it (it didn't), others have suggested switching the
resolution of your wallpaper image to match the screen's native
resolution. That doesn't work either. Nor does switching to a blank
screensaver (another web suggestion).

The actual culprit is TMM, Vista's process that looks for multiple
monitors and attempts to intelligently modify resolution. If you aren't
using multiple monitors, you can disable TMM:

1. right-click on 'computer' and select 'manage'
2. on the left pane, expand 'task scheduler' then ' task scheduler
library' then 'Microsoft' then 'Windows' then 'MobilePC'
3. select TMM in the center pane, then on the right pane, choose
'disable'

Now you should be able to close your laptop, let it go to sleep and
when it wakes up it will still be in your preferred resolution (also,
the screen won't go blank for a second right after waking up)

I'm not sure if you will have to also disable it for future windows
sessions (maybe in the 'triggers' tab on the bottom of the center
pane).

It seems to have worked for her. The resolution seems to be stable for
the time being (anyway).Go to the full post...
http://ask.metafilter.com/76449/Dell-notebook-Vista-and-Screen-Resolution

Good luck.

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Evil_Salmon · External Since: Jul 01, 2009 Posts: 1

=?Utf-8?B?QW5keQ==?=;112966 Wrote:
> I have a 1280x1024 monitor. Every time I start Windows Vista, my screen
> resolution automatically resets itself to 640x480. I have no idea why,
> but I
> have to change it back every time i start Windows. I've looked around,
> but I
> seem to be the only one I know of who has this problem. Does anyone
> know how
> I can solve this?

I had an issue where my screen resolution would go from 1680x1050 to
something like 640 or 800 seemingly at random after hybernation, restart
or even in some cases when I resumed operation after a screensaver was
ended by moving a mouse or something. All my icons would shift around on
my desktop, and it was generally annoying.

I found a fix to it by accident.

I run Vista 32 bit.

I right click the desktop, choose properties.

Then I go to display settings, and choose the advanced settings at the
bottom of that little screen.

In this setting screen I have tabs at the top... Color Mangement,
GeForce 8800GT (My graphics card), Adapter, Monitor, and Troubleshoot.

Choose your graphics card tab. For me this brings up a screen that
shows NVIDIA. (just my graphics card maker)

Then I choose "start the NVIDIA control Panel" I chose the advanved
option, it gave me a choice between advanced and basic.

Then here it the fix!

The key was this: Under the display options I have the following
choices:
1) Change resolution
2) Change flat Panel Scaling*
3) Rotate Display
4) Manage Custom Resolutions
5) Set up Multiple Displays

* Choose Change Flat Panel Scaling.

This will bring up new options. My old setting was "Use my display's
built-in scaling"
I changed the selected option to "Use NVIDIA [My graphics card]
scaling"

Since I've done this. I've not had one issue with my screen resolution
changing back on me.

Hope this helps.

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