reset display for user

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I have a user who somehow set his resolution to beyond the range of the
monitor. How do I reset that users display settings under safemode.

Thanks

CF
 
Resolution settings are machine specific. Try creating a boot disk using
/BASEVIDEO switch. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk
must contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2000
machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy),
and copy Windows 2000 versions of ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it.
Edit the boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you wish to
boot. Below is an example of boot.ini. The default is to start the operating
system located on the first partition of the primary or first drive
(drive0). Then drive0 partition 2 and so on.


[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT /BASEVIDEO
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT /BASEVIDEO="Windows 2000 0,1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT /BASEVIDEO="Windows 2000 0,2"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT /BASEVIDEO="Windows 2000 1,1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT /BASEVIDEO="Windows 2000 1,2"




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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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MSNewsGroup said:
I have a user who somehow set his resolution to beyond the range of
the monitor. How do I reset that users display settings under
safemode.
Thanks

CF
Click to expand...

A quick fix for this that I've used in the past has been to wander to the
users desk with one of the CAD departments TFT screens, connect it ...
reduce the resolution .... then "accidentally" whack the user with the TFT
screen as I walk away ;)
 
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