At 7:34 PM -0600 10/4/09, Joseph Tainter wrote:
Sorry for the OT question, but the knowledge on this list is
incredible. I hope someone can help me.
I have a Dell laptop running XP. On Wednesday I installed a new,
19", 1280x1024 external Viewsonic monitor. At the same time I
installed a little utility called Desktop Restore, which restores
the position of your icons if they get rearranged. All seemed well
until today--everything seemed to be working fine.
Today I was using Firefox to search for a hotel in Stockholm.
Suddenly Zone Alarm popped up a window saying something was trying
to access the internet. I clicked on "Deny," but Zone Alarm wouldn'd
respond and I couldn't get the message off my screen. So I rebooted
the computer. That's when the problems started. Here they are:
1. My 1280 x 1024 monitor will only show in 1024 by 768. I cannot
get it to switch to the correct resolution and stick.
2. Now the monitor on the laptop also comes up in 1024 x 768 when I
boot up. This monitor I can get to the correct resolution (1280 x
800) by manually setting it in Properties. But I shouldn't have to
do that.
3. Suddenly System Restore no longer works. I cannot go back to a
previous restore point.
4. So I ran AVG Antivirus 8.5, after first updating it. I had it
scan the entire drive. It could not find any viruses.
Can anyone think of what may be going on? What should I try?
Seems like normal Windows behaviour to me!
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