Everday when turning on the computer the screen comes up looking like safe mode, larger icons etc but it is not safe mode. I then have to go to restart and all comes right. Any ideas on what is happening?

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I would first try reinstalling your Video Card Drivers.

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On Monday, January 15, 2007 at 6:56 pm, Steve wrote:
I would first try reinstalling your Video Card Drivers. 

I would also check your Monitor in Device Manager. If it says Default then that will 
be the problem. If you can't find drivers for your monitor just select a SVGA from 
the available list.

The reason you have large icons is because the screen size is set to 640x480. If 
you check the Control Panel - Display/Settings see if you are able to change the 
screen size. If not then and your video card drivers are up to date then it comes 
back to your monitor. 

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That has happened to me, too, on a few occasions. Before restarting a 2nd time, try 
running scandisk. Simply running scandisk has corrected the problem for me every 
time it's happened. Hopefully it will do the trick for you, as well.

Ken

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A possible solution is to open the Device Manager:

 START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM > DEVICE MANAGER

In Device Manager, highlight the Display Adapter:

 1. Click on the "+" sign next to 'Display Adapters'.

 2. Click on the actual (named) adapter.

 3. Then delete the named adapter by clicking "Remove".

If there are any entries with an exclamation mark against them (which indicates a 
fault), remove those entries also, in the same way.

Then reboot. Windows will automatically re-install the correct drivers in the course 
of the reboot. You may have to point the install wizard to the location of the proper 
driver, which is probably one of these locations -

 C:\WINDOWS
 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS
 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS


Alternatively, this type of fault can be caused by a driver conflict with a driver 
for a device that's not in use. Such drivers only show up in Safe Mode, which shows 
all installed drivers (only those for the devices currently attached to the system 
are shown while in normal mode).

So if the solution above doesn't cure the fault, reboot into SAFE mode. Then open 
the Device Manager again, and (using the same procedure as explained above) delete 
all "ghost" entries seen there, i.e. those entries that ONLY show up in Safe Mode. 
Then reboot again, into normal mode.

Ed







On Monday, January 15, 2007 at 6:31 pm, Bob wrote:

>Everday when turning on the computer the screen comes up looking like safe mode, 

>larger icons etc but it is not safe mode. I then have to go to restart and all comes 

>right. Any ideas on what is happening? 

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