I'm a new owner of Vista Home Premium, installed the updates, updated video
card, etc. However whenever I start my computer the screen resets to the
lowest resolution there is 6something by 4something, I have a widescreen
monitor, so you can imagine why this bothers me, it's also a pain to go
everytime to resize the resolution, Any ideas as to why it does this??

I originally thought it was the video card so I uninstalled it and
reinstalled it with old drivers, but it didn't help..

"Martin" wrote:

I'm a new owner of Vista Home Premium, installed the updates, updated video
card, etc. However whenever I start my computer the screen resets to the
lowest resolution there is 6something by 4something, I have a widescreen
monitor, so you can imagine why this bothers me, it's also a pain to go
everytime to resize the resolution, Any ideas as to why it does this??

I originally thought it was the video card so I uninstalled it and
reinstalled it with old drivers, but it didn't help..

Do you have the driver for you Monitor installed? Where did you get your
updated video driver from. I only really use NVidia, and I always had
problems until I installed the latest drivers available directly from NVidia.

Otherwise I found this posting, see if it applies to you:

So the resolution issue is a little challenging, but not impossible to
work-around. The issue has actually been fixed in newer builds of Windows
Vista, but until we have one that's broadly available for you to use, you can
try the following steps (a little convoluted, but should get you going).

1) Run regedit
2) Locate HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\(XYZ)\ 0001, where
(XYZ) is a GUID with a whole bunch of keys under it (look for
DALRULE_GETLCDFAKEEDID).
3) Change the value with DALRULE_GETLCDFAKEEDID to 0.
4) Reboot.