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Michael C
kony said: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