I've had two 1280x1024 monitors running for years on an nVidia 8800GT card with no problems. I've now replaced one monitor with a new 2560x1440 one. The card seems to support both fine, however every time I reboot the resolutions and monitor positions revert to the old settings. I've tried upgrading, downgrading, stripping out and reinstalling many versions of the nvidia drivers to no avail.

Logging in as another user doesn't help - same problem. Booting into another another OS (Win7 64) works OK, so it is just this OS installation. During boot up everything looks fine (ie native 2450x1440 res) until the nVidia control panel or something is loaded which flips it back into the old mode. I have no old saved nvidia profiles. I can't find anything in the registry relating to these old settings.

Its driving me crazy having to set resolutions and realign monitors on every reboot! Can anybody help?

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I was this close to writing my own proggie to deal with this annoyance (My dual display is at work, and DisplayChanger costs USD 500 for commercial use!).

Then I read a tip here that saved me from my misery.

Do (did) you use Windows LiveMesh?

That's your culprit right there.

Disable the service named "Windows Live Mesh remote connections service" and prepare to reap the benefits next time you reboot.

Or uninstall LiveMesh altogether, it's been discontinued in Feburary 2013 anyway.

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I also had this problem (NVidia GTX570) when I updated the driver. I have two monitors, a Dell 2209WA and a Cintiq 12WX). Position, resolution (and my primary monitor selection) was lost every reboot, which sure is annoying.

For some reason the scaling settings "Desktop size and position" was set to "Full screen" in the Nvidia control panel, which seems to cause the problem. I changed this to "No scaling", and setting up each monitor to it's native resolution. No more problems after this!

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I have this problem as well. I found a hotfix which is supposed to fix this issue:

Unfortunately it didn't help for me.

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As requested by shufler, I am 'answering' my own question, well, it's a workaround anyway.

Basically, I think the nVidia control panel (or something) sets the resolution to some old values hidden somewhere (couldn't find them in the registry) towards the end of boot up but before log in. Removing the nVidia drivers, control panel, settings files, and registry settings (even using nVidia's own tools) does not fix the problem.

The workaround is just to automatically reset the res and positions to what you want after log in. I used the command line Display Changer utility to do this in a batch file which runs at start-up:

timeout 2
"C:\Program Files\12noon Display Changer\dccmd.exe" -max -more
"C:\Program Files\12noon Display Changer\dccmd.exe" -monitor="\\.\DISPLAY2" -ty=416 -apply

The 2s timeout allows time for other stuff to load on boot up otherwise it doesn't always work YMMV. The first line sets the primary display monitor to its max resolution and waits for another command, the second line positions the y pos of the second monitor 416 pixels below the top of the first and applies both commands. See the display changer documentation for more info, most people will probably just need the first line with the -max setting.

Hope this helps somebody. If anybody figures out a proper fix please let me know.

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I also had this issue with the Windows 7 update.
Resolution steps:

1. Uninstalled and reinstalled the software and driver for the monitor adaptor (DUALHEAD2GO - Digital SE) - same issue
2. Hotfix offered from Microsoft - after reboot, same issue. ( - hotfix website link)
3. Finally, I ended up updating the Display Adapters following these stpes: a) go to Control Panel> Device Manager b) in the "Device Manager" pop-up window c) right-click on "Display adapters" d) click on "Scan for hardware changes" After this, the computer "fixed" itself.

I'm not exactly sure if it was the combo of everything or if just the last thing helped, but, just thought I'd add this info, just in case :) hope it helps! :)

I know this is an old thread, but just putting this out there for reference for anyone else who stumbles across this in search of a solution like I did. The problem was I could set the screen resolution and extended display settings, but it would revert back to 1024x768 on a single monitor on restarts and cold starts.

In my case, I'd forgotten that I'd set the option for "Base video" in MSConfig/Boot/Boot options whilst troubleshooting a different issue. The fix was simply to untick the "Base video" box, hit OK and restart when prompted.

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