On Mnemosyne's memorable day known as Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:02:59 GMT Calliope   
   probably had an epic bad hair day to prompt her sister Thalia in mockingly   
   inspiring "Jonathan Rothwell"  to write in   
   his/her epistle  thus:   
      
   > I changed my machine to 1024x768 256 colours, but now   
   > I'm stuck on that setting. Whenever I try changing the settings to 16 bit   
   > colour at 1024x768, it doesn't change when it asks me whether or not I want   
   > to keep the settings. Even if I say yes, it just WON'T CHANGE.   
   >   
   > Any ideas?   
      
   Yes, last one, but do BACKUP the registry-keys you are about to change   
   FIRST!   
      
   I mean REALLY!   
      
   Then check out HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Config\0001\Display\Settings (or   
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Config\0000\Display\Settings or '0002' -- whatever path   
   works in your config) and fill in your "preferred" settings. Keys like   
   BitsperPixel, RefreshRate and Resolution are pretty self-explanatory. But be   
   very careful, change one setting at the time, reboot and see if the result   
   is working. Load some apps that can do some heavy pixel rendering, like a   
   DIRECTX diagnose (default location C:\Program   
   Files\directx\setup\Dxdiag.exe) or a game under Windows. And do not blame me   
   if things go totally FUBAR on your system.   
      
   User...   
      
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