Firstly, I installed a program on my computer and I restarted my pc and it started fixing something on the blue screen before you log into windows.

Then I couldn't get onto the logon screen so I went into safe mode and uninstalled the program. The colour quality was very low and the resolution was small.

After that, I got to the login screen, the resolution was as small as it could be and the colour quality was 4-bit!

I right clicked on desktop, properties > settings and tried changing the colour qwuality back to the highest (32-bit). I click on Ok and it says "are you sure you want to keep it like this?" But nothing has changed...? The same for Resolution.

Here's a screenshot of it.

Please help!

"are you sure you want to keep it like this?" did you click on "yes" ?
Also you need to restart your pc after you changed the color depth for the changes to come into effect.

I clicked on yes. I'll see what I can do...

Edit: Restarted. No change.
When I click on apply/ok it just goes back to the low res and 3-bit

Hmmz, restore your pc to the nearest restore point, and then try to figure out what went wrong...

I've tried! I used Norton Go Back.. it went back to yesterday but then it still the same

And did u already tried the windows restore points?

try to reinstall you graphics card to get the old settings back
maybe that will work

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Originally posted by chris4
Firstly, I installed a program on my computer and I restarted my pc and it started fixing something on the blue screen before you log into windows.

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I don't use system restore because of a couple of reasons.

The program I installed was System Mechanic® 5 Professional
http://www.iolo.com/sm/5pro/index.cfm

How do i reinstall my graphics card? I have nvidia nforce?
Do you think I should reformat my pc?

Hmm, why don't you use system restore?

Do as BEWARE^^ suggested and reinstall the graphics card first if you still have the CD, if you usually you can find a driver installation download from the graphics card website. I suggest giving that a try first.

And maybe have a quick check on windows update before, maybe an update may fix the problem.

i think u r using any skin for windows.. try to set the appearence to default and restart ur pc then see that it fix ur problem or not other wise uninstall the system mechanic...and see the effects....

edit: what changes u  had done with system mechanic..??

- I reinstalled the graphics card drivers off the CD. No change.
- No updates avaliable in Windows Update (already downlaoded them)
- On System Machanic I search pc for viruses... I done a spyware check... Internet speedup... Defragment [although I stopped it because it was taking too long?] and some other things [getting rid of junk etc.]

Maybe if i do a full defragment ?

edit: And I changed the windows xp silver theme a while ago.

EDIT: Yay it's working I think I installed some drivers off the internet and now it's working.

It was coming up this before:

and when I clicked on yes, it didnt do anything. But this time it worked. Very weird.



Thanks for everyone that helped

Nvidia nforce is not a video card

its a chipset

if you are using the onboard video you have a nvidia geforce 4 mx 440 onboard

it sounds like your agp drivers have been removed

reinstall your nvidia nforce drivers again

this should also reinstall your video drivers

It's working now if you read my post above your one.
I reinstalled the nvidia drivers and it seemed to work.