leave 'puter on, or turn off?

[Michael C]

It's trivial to argue, but quite crucial in order to get XP
up and running at a lowest common denominator that is not
too high for some hardware to handle. If XP's default were
actually 1280x, some people would only get "out of range"
types of error messages. XP only moves FROM the default TO
the non-default, AFTER it has detected specific hardware.
Since there is no default computer hardware configuration
that mandates having a 1280x LCD monitor, XP does not have a
default 1280x resolution, it has to use it's default
resolution then change to 1280 from that default after
having detected your monitor.

XP does not have different "defaults", when it plugs and
plays different hardware, in every case that it changes away
from it's original resolution that is a case where it
changes to a non-default resolution. If you instead wanted
to say each piece of hardware has it's own default
resolution, some having 1280x, that would be true, but that
is not XP's default, rather than hardware's default that XP
is changing to from it's default.

XP has more than 1 default. For my hardware it *defaults* to 1280x1024, for
other hardware it defaults to other resolutions. Personally I think the
default is 1280x1024 and it drops down only if it the hardware cannot
support that res. Can you show me a web page that shows otherwise?

That's all beside the point anyway. In the context of what you originally
said "Do you use the default resolution" I am 100% correct. I use the
resolution that XP gives me. I do up the refresh rate from 60 to 85hz.

Anyway, what I originally said was a bit of a joke anyway. Obviously your
statement was meant to say, do you use 640x480, which the obvious answer is
no. I am constantly amazed at the things people on newsgroup will argue to
the death. The other thing that amazes me is that I seem to get draw in. Not
any more though

Michael

 

[kony]

XP has more than 1 default. For my hardware it *defaults* to 1280x1024,

Read very carefully- NO.

For your hardware, XP runs at one resolution then switches
to a different resolution after having detected your
hardware... but it WAS running on your hardware at a prior
resolution, not 1280x1024, unless you had installed a
pre-configured OEM image or a backup of a previously
installed state which can already reconfigured itself.

That is the opposite of a default. Your system, using your
monitor, was running at XP's default, not 1280x !!! THEN it
switched to 1280x1024, which was then NOT the XP default any
longer.

If you still can't get it, oh well. Did you ever consider
searching for this on the 'net?

 

[Rod Speed]

No, I only argue when someone is wrong.

Obvious lie.

"Default" is the OPPOSITE of the non-default,

Must be one of those rocket scientist pathological liars.

the eventual setting XP uses by plug-n-playing or having driver supplied.

Pity about your original question that generated this pathetic excuse for a thread.

YOU said

Thats clearly asking about whether I MANUALLY CHANGED
what XP has chosen to use for the monitor resolution, NOT
what XP itself chooses to use for the monitor resolution once
its worked out what monitor and video card is being used.

The default would obviously have to be what is used _before_
the particulars of the system are taken into account, before XP
reconfigures itself to a unique state relevant only to the hardware
in a particular system which is decidedly a NON-Default condition,
which is obviously what is happening to get 1280x1024.

Never ever could bullshit its way out of a wet paper bag.

That original question of yours makes no sense at all in that context.

Hint- I didnt write that it wasn't the default for "fun"
or "good times", it was because it isn't the default!

Pathetic, really.