Question about 'Windows keeps forgetting simple settings, such as screen colors!'
Monday, March 1, 2004 at 10:33 am
Posted by Lisa
(1 messages posted)
The solution in the article completely solved my problem (Filling in all fields in
Control Panel\Network\Identification.)
My problem was simpler than what others are describing, though. I think people are
actually discussing at least two DIFFERENT problems in this thread.
My problem was simply that, at the very end of Windows startup, my desktop background
color visibly changed from what I had selected in my color scheme to plain white.
I could manually reset it, but it would not save. No display or appearance settings
OTHER THAN the background color were affected.
Other people seem to be losing all display settings, their systems are reverting
to 16-color, and so forth. This is more serious than what was happening to me.
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re: Question about 'Windows keeps forgetting simple settings, such as screen colors!'
Tuesday, March 2, 2004 at 4:16 pm
Posted by Franklin
(540 messages posted)
This may help.And remember always backup your registry before making any changes.
To make ALL Desktop settings permanent in an (Explorer) window: window size, position,
display the toolbar etc, run Regedit and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer
Right-click in the right hand pane, ---> click New, and select DWORD Value. Name
---> it NoSaveSettings, and ---> press Enter. Now ---> right-click on it, ---> choose
Modify, and type 1 in the Value data box. Click ---> OK and exit the Registry Editor.
All future windows settings will be from now on those you specified BEFORE creating
the new "NoSaveSettings" Registry value, and can be changed ONLY temporarily.
Next time you open that same window, its settings will revert back to the ones you
started with, before this Registry change.
To reenable permanent settings changes again, run Regedit again, and go to the same
Registry key above, right-click on "NoSaveSettings", ---> choose Modify, and change
its Value data to 0. Close Regedit, make the desired changes to your windows settings,
then go back and make them permanent again by resetting "NoSaveSettings" back to
1.
Alternatively you can delete the NoSaveSettings DWORD (which has the same effect
as assigning it the 0 value) by right-clicking on it, selecting Delete and then clicking
Yes.
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