Overnight Re-configuration

Sorry-It turns back to 640 x 480 from the set 800 x 600.

What kind of video adapter are you running? You might want to check out your advanced display settings. Also, are you sure that you are actually applying your settings after you change them? Hope this helps, Ryan.

Assuming no one has access to your computer at night a old poorly written program may be changing the settings. I know we use some old DOS based educational software the runs full screen the changes the settings on exit. Don't know if that helps but it is a thought.

some bios will allow you to manage monitor refresh rates, you should first set it to allow for adaptor default. if this is already the case, then set it to 72HZ, known refresh rate for 800x600 non interlaced.

As far as your mail accounts go, you did not specify your mail client, I will assume you are using some flavor of outlook, Outlook allows you to specify the primary or default mail account, loaded when outlook starts. with all the flavors out there, i cannot tell you exactly how to makethe changes, but you must examine outlooks properties, and this will allow you to define the primary mail account...

Next best guess?

You monitor is not properly defined in display settings...

hell, guy, keep plugging away...welcome to windows

What I can tell you about your display settings changing is that the probability the wrong video drivers are installed is high.

Try getting the very latest from the card's vendor and give it another whirl.

Good luck.

Are you on a circuit that may blink down at night? I worked on a network once where once a week one of the Zyplex routers would lose it's strapping. After several weeks and much hair, we realized that once a week the floors got buffed. The buffercaused a momentary brown out, just enough to reset the router without causing a full reboot. Win98 may be blinking down and restarting with an older version of the registry.

Do you have User Policies set up so that when a specific user logs on the PC has their settings. Maybe you change them to your liking but when PC is logged in again the revert to old settings.
This can be accessed through Control Panel/Users.

Are you telling us that powering off your pc and restarting during the day does not produce the same result!?

If so try to actually unplug your power during the day for the customary 10-15 seconds.

Let us know the results of this test.

My instincts are telling me that you are using the wrong video driver.

How did you determine the what driver to use for the card, by manufacturer or chip?

Do you mean to say that the monitor type itself changes from the type you actually are using to some other type of monitor?

This is what I meant when I referred to monitor type not properly defined. Not display 800x600, but actual monitor type.
Found in display properties>setings>advanced.
here you should be able to tell windows the exact make and model of your monitor

Good luck...

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