Looking for advice. I have an ongoing problem with my dual monitor setup. My setup keeps defaulting the resolution of the monitors to the wrong (non-native) resolutions.
I apologize if this isn't the right place to ask. Any advice on where to post is appreciated. I'm pretty sure at this point the problem is in the Registry. As the title suggests, I have two LCD monitors of different native resolution. Every time I reboot or restart my PC the monitors are set to OLD resolutions from ages past. Its like the values got set 2 years ago and made boot time defaults. However, I can change the values to the native resolution for both lcd monitors and everything works just fine, up until I restart and they are back to the old values. I've lived with this problem for over a year, and now that I've just updated my main monitor to something that can do 1900x1000 instead of 1600x1000 I'd like to make it 'stick', but it doesn't. My second monitor loves 1024x768 instead of it's native 1280 x 1024. /sigh I've done a lot of google searching but nothing has hit the mark yet. Thank you for your time. -Dennis PS: Here is the dump from my latest nvidia control panel information dump: NVIDIA System Information report created on: 03/14/2012 17:01:10 System name: DENNIS-PC [Display] Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit (Service Pack 1) DirectX version: 11.0 GPU processor: GeForce GTX 560 Ti Driver version: 295.73 DirectX support: 11 CUDA Cores: 384 Core clock: 890 MHz Shader clock: 1780 MHz Memory clock: 2091 MHz (4182 MHz data rate) Memory interface: 256-bit Total available graphics memory: 4095 MB Dedicated video memory: 1024 MB GDDR5 System video memory: 0 MB Shared system memory: 3071 MB Video BIOS version: 70.24.11.00.62 IRQ: 17 Bus: PCI Express x8 Gen2 [Components] easyDaemonAPIU64.DLL 1.7.11.0 NVIDIA Update Components WLMerger.exe 1.7.11.0 NVIDIA Update Components daemonu.exe 1.7.11.0 NVIDIA Update Components ComUpdatus.exe 1.7.11.0 NVIDIA Update Components NvUpdtr.dll 1.7.11.0 NVIDIA Update Components NvUpdt.dll 1.7.11.0 NVIDIA Update Components nvui.dll 7.17.12.9573 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvxdsync.exe 8.17.12.9573 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.12.9573 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvxdbat.dll 8.17.12.9573 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvxdapix.dll 8.17.12.9573 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component NVCPL.DLL 8.17.12.9573 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvCplUIR.dll 4.2.710.0 NVIDIA Control Panel nvCplUI.exe 4.3.790.0 NVIDIA Control Panel nvWSSR.dll 6.14.12.9053 NVIDIA Workstation Server nvWSS.dll 6.14.12.9573 NVIDIA Workstation Server nvViTvSR.dll 6.14.12.9053 NVIDIA Video Server nvViTvS.dll 6.14.12.9573 NVIDIA Video Server NVSTVIEW.EXE 7.17.12.9573 NVIDIA 3D Vision Photo Viewer NVSTTEST.EXE 7.17.12.9573 NVIDIA 3D Vision Test Application NVSTRES.DLL 7.17.12.9573 NVIDIA 3D Vision Module (0) nvDispSR.dll 6.14.12.9053 NVIDIA Display Server NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.12.9573 NVIDIA Media Center Library nvDispS.dll 6.14.12.9573 NVIDIA Display Server PhysX 09.12.0209 NVIDIA PhysX NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.12.9573 NVIDIA CUDA 4.1.1 driver nvGameSR.dll 6.14.12.9053 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server nvGameS.dll 6.14.12.9573 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server Occams Razor
March 14th, 2012 5:20pm

If there is any other information that I should provide please let me know.Occams Razor
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March 15th, 2012 12:12pm

Try not having the nvida control panel load up at startup and just use the built in Windows monitor detection. Are these two monitors recognized by Windows or are they coming up as just generic monitors in Device and Printers? Any errors in the device manager? I am assuming you have the most up to date driver for nvida (maybe try a driver rollback and see if an update mucked up the works?)
March 15th, 2012 11:45pm

Thanks for replying Garveyk659. The monitor drivers are from the manufacturers and have been that way almost from day one. I went into the device manager and examined the driver properties to make sure they are loaded. So they are being recognized. I haven't tried disabling the nvidia control panel. I'll see if ccleaner ( startup / services listings ) allows me to disable the nvidia control panel. Then I'll see what is different if anything. I'll look at the driver, at the defaults. When you say errors in device manager, I assume you mean looking inside the device tree and look for devices marked as failing. To that the answer is no, everything is fine in that dialog. If you meant inside of the event log, I haven't checked and that's a good idea, I should look through there for any system level errors. I'll post later tonight with what I find. Oh and yes I typically install the latest driver as soon as it is released. Thanks again for replying. -Dennis Occams Razor
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March 16th, 2012 9:42am

So after several days of experimenting, here is what I've found. When Win7 first shows the login screen, the resolution IS set to the native resolution. After a 2 or 3 second delay, the resolution changes from the 1900x1000(something like that) to the 1600x1080 that my previous monitor had. So... something I've got installed or an old registry setting is coming into affect. It boggles my mind. It is so much fun having to reset my resolution for both my monitors every time I reboot my win 7 box. Occams Razor
April 2nd, 2012 1:22pm

To close this issue... I found out what the problem was. A long time ago I installed "Live Mesh" and upgraded as time went on to various versions that followed. I haven't used it in a long time and forgotten about it. A couple of seconds after system startup, the live mesh service in the background was reseting the screen resolutions to what "it" thought things should be. Very frustrating. I disabled the remote live mesh (I cannot recall the exact name) service and presto my resolutions stay as they should. -Dennis Occams Razor
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May 9th, 2012 11:22am

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