Vista Screen resolution Changes when Switching Users
- by Benjol
I regularly have a problem when switching between users in Vista - the screen resolution drops down to 800x600. If I try to set the resolution back to the maximum, it says nothing, but just keeps it at 800x600. I can set it back to an intermediate value. Otherwise I have to either restart the PC, or sometimes if I log off one of the users, I can then set the resolution back to max.
Might it also have something to do with using sleep mode instead of performing regular shutdowns? I thought it might be related to the desktop background image taking up too much space, but even with plain colours, the problem still occurs.
There is an enormous thread on this here, but not really any answers.
From what I can gather from that thread, it isn't related to any particular applications, nor limited to a particular make of graphics card or monitor, so I don't think that including hardware details is useful.
This is a very annoying problem, as it screws up my desktop and screen layout every single time.
Has anyone here experienced this problem or found a solution?
I've noticed that Windows Update has tried to install nVidia updates and apparently they've failed on several occasions. Not sure if that is of any relevance or not.
UPDATE
The last post on the thread:
FWIW - I had this problem for about 2
years and wrote a number of posts in
this thread in the past. It survived
OS reinstallation, change of
practically all of my hardware piece
by piece (mobo, cpu, monitor, graphics
card, memory, power supply...) I used
to be affected by this annoying
problem at least once every 24-48
hours.
About 1.5 months ago I wiped out my 32
bit vista ultimate installation and
installed Windows7 ultimate 64 bit
from scratch and never saw this
problem again. GOOD RIDDANCE. Vista
was a pathetic piece of __ that felt
like a flashback to the old [horrible]
NT4/Windows95 days. I was seriously
considering switching over to
Apple/Mac OSX if this problem
persisted.
