NT 4.0 lets you boot to NT or NT "VGA Mode"--or whatever other OS choices
are in boot.ini, and so did 3.51 (at least). And to really mess up video
settings, your user would have to have administrator privileges on the system.
Windows 3.1x DID have this problem--but there you could boot to DOS and
edit system.ini to fix things.
At 07:11 AM 1/21/02 -0800, you wrote:
>--- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Net Llama wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Windoze will let you completely fubar the video settings to
> > something
> > > above what the monitor will handle. Good luck getting that fixed
> > > without reinstalling the OS, when you have no video, no telnet, no
> > ssh.
> > >
> >
> > You boot into safe mode and run 640x480 and fix it. Not ALL Windows
> > problems require re-installing the O/S. In fact, Windows users
> > re-install the O/S far more frequently than is required.
>
>Last I checked NT4 didn't have a safe mode. If some luser
>unintentionally (or otherwise) screwed the video settings, it was time
>to see how the blind use windoze.
>
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