Changing Resolution 1024X768

[Guest]

I have a user that everytime she logs in her resolution is changed to 1024 X 768. She changes it back to 800 X 600 and the next day when she logs in again it changes back to 1024 X 768. How can I fix this? It doesn't seem to retain the proper pixel setting.

Thanks.

Anthony

 

[Richard Urban]

Does she have a "flat" monitor? The newer flat monitors have a native
resolution that they run at. It can't be changed.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

I have a user that everytime she logs in her resolution is changed to 1024

X 768. She changes it back to 800 X 600 and the next day when she logs in
again it changes back to 1024 X 768. How can I fix this? It doesn't seem
to retain the proper pixel setting.

 

[David.]

-----Original Message-----
Does she have a "flat" monitor? The newer flat monitors have a native
resolution that they run at. It can't be changed.

Actually, some can (my Dell can) but the results may not
be to the users' liking.

I reduced my monitor's resolution from the default
1280x764 to 1152x864 and it works ok in that resolution.

 

[Scott M.]

That's not true of all flat monitors at all. I have 2 different new Dell
flat monitors that accept and retain whatever resolution I set them to.

 

[purplehaz]

What do you mean by "flat"?
LCD?
Plasma?
CRT Flat screen (ie: trinitron).

I have a LCD Flat panel and a CRT Flat screen and both let you choose any
resolution you want. I run my 18" LCD at 1280 x 1024. I have never seen a
monitor you couldn't change the resolution on. And then again I have never
used or seen a Plasma flat screen in action either.

 

[purplehaz]

The resolution setting is the same for all users and has to be set in a user
account that has admin rights. Log into the admin account or a user with
admin rights, set the resolution, log out and reboot, log into her user and
see if it stays.

 

[Richard Urban]

Are you talking about a LED monitor or a CRT monitor? All CRT flat screen
monitors can have their resolution changed.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[purplehaz]

LOL -- i assume thats a typo......
LED = Light Emitting Diode
LCD = Liquid Crystal Display

 

[Steve C. Ray]

Richard, I have three LCD (not LED) monitors and I can change the resolution
on all of them. But they are designed for a specific resolution. The one I
am looking at now is designed for 1024X768, but it works great on several
other settings.

 

[Scott M.]

I don't think that anyone would call a CRT a flat screen monitor. Yes the
screen can be flat, but you don't see many CRT's with flat screens. This is
like saying that a flat screen plasma TV is the same as a Sony Wega flat
screen CRT TV. They are not the same.

When people refer to a flat screen monitor, they are generally referring to
an LCD (not LED) display. LED (light emitting diode) is what the old Texas
Instruments calculators used (red numbers). LCD (liquid crystal diode) is
what has been used for years in most calculators and other devices (gray
colored letters/numbers). LCD now works with color and this is what most
flat screen monitors use.

 

[purplehaz]

Actually the CRT flats are called CRT Flat Screen monitors and the LCD and
Plasmas are called Flat Panel Monitors. Before LCD(flat panel - 2" thick
monitors) the CRT with flat screen, such as the Sony Trinitrons, they were
all called flat screen. Like for example if you look here:
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/lcdtv.htm
They refer to the LCD tv as a Flat-Panel design, not a flat screen. Flat
screen is usually for crt/tube monitors tv's and flat panel is for lcd's and
plasma.
And if you look here they refer to the flat crt's as Flat Screen
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/crt_p75fplus.htm

LCD/Plasma = Flat Panle
CRT = Flat Screen
Not that any of this matters, but it does get confusing.