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Screen settings in Win98

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by linda

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System is Win98, 2nd ed., with Samsung SyncMaster 570S flat panel screen. Display looks better with black background and that's how I've set it. Every time Windows is restarted, the screen display changes back to the Windows standard default. I change it back and click the Apply and then OK buttons. Reboot and it's back to default. What's wrong?

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by dmiles

This is a difficult one to answer,but here is a guess
Open Display,click on the Appperance tab and check to make sure that no scheme is set,then check the color box and see what color is specified
Now,click on the Background tab and specify the background color that you want set,click on apply then OK

by curacao_dejavu

windows has some known problems related to the display settings when using user profiles. Make sure you are not using that option.
Also don't use the active desktop settings.

Leopold

by dklippert

Here's something I picked up somewhere that you might want to look at:

Run Regedit.exe an look in ---

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

If you find anything, first back up the key by clicking "Registry",
then "Export Registry File...", then type "c:\run.reg" and click
"Save". Then in the right window, highlight the name of the item
that's using "runonce.exe", press "Delete" and confirm the deletion.
Make sure the computer boots normally, then you can delete c:\run.reg."

by donmars

I am not sure this will cure the problem but it will certainly help other things such as clarity and sharpness of the LCD monitor. Make sure you install the LCD monitor using the disk that came with it or in the monitor setup under advanced select agenric LCD. monitor.

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