----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brodbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 3:51 PM Subject: RE: Screen Resolution trouble with WinNT 4.0
> Windows NT's startup resolution is whatever resolution the Administrator > account is set to use. Log in as Administrator, change your screen > resolution to 800x600, then restart the machine. After that the login > screen should use that as its resolution. This is not quite the whole story. At the moment, my NT Workstation, for example, presents a 640X480 logon screen but when I logon as Administrator, the resolution changes to 800X600 (or whatever I left it at the last time I was logged on.) It appears to me that the resolution it uses for the logon screen (and the screen you get with CTRL+ALT+DEL when you're logged on) is whatever resolution was in effect the last time the machine was shutdown, regardless of who shut it down and regardless of what resolution Administrator last used. I put in a little effort to determine where this setting (the pre-logon and inter-logon resolution) was stored, but to no avail. It has to be stored on the hard drive somewhere, otherwise it couldn't survive a reboot. I expected to find it in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT (where the state of, e.g., numlock at logon is stored) but didn't. There are a couple of suspicious looking-entries at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles\Current\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ati\Device0\DefautltSetti ngs.XResolution and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles\Current\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ati\Device0\DefautltSetti ngs.YResolution. (Incidentally, the "ati" in those keys reflect the fact that I have an ATI video controller ... yours may be different.) There are also suspicious-looking entries at HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\SystemCurrentControlSet\Service\ati\Device0\DefaultSetti ngs.XResolution and HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\SystemCurrentControlSet\Service\ati\Device0\DefaultSetti ngs.YResolution and these may be the place, but I didn't think these would persist across reboot. In any case, changing these seems not to have any effect ... if one of these is it, it gets read only at boot time and doesn't get reread when the logon screen is presented. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
