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Display settings in XP Profile

We have a user whose video settings got screwed up by the new Windows Updates.  We have removed the update, and reinstalled the video drivers (Dell, win xp) and that has not worked.  Logged in as administrator, the video settings work fine, but logged in as the user they are still off (bad color, big icons).  We tried copying their profile to a new one and that did not work.  We are now trying to hunt through the user profile folders to find where the display setting for this would be.  Any ideas?  It does not appear to be in local settings, as we moved everything but that and still had the problem.

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go into device manager, local display adapters, go to drivers tab and ROLLBACK. reboot the machine. post results
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instead of rollback do an actual uninstall
then go in add/remove programs, make sure the drivers are not in there, if they are then uninstall them.
then reinstall the drivers from the manufacturer, you can also use the chip provider like nvidia or ati.
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We had done that with the drivers, turns out the XP classic was set to something else after all this happened in the display settings and once we changed that it worked.  We figured the driver was ok since it worked as admin.
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It is working deleted and reinstalled the video drivers completely and then chagned the XP display settings back to classic.
Thanks, you can close this one.
ok.. perhaps you want to close the question
You should really have given the answer accept points to irwinpks and an assist to sim2k_support as they answered the question correctly (as in their fix was the one you ultimately used.) but thanks anyway

Ian
@ian_chard...thanks for the support :-)
No problem, credit where credit is due. :o)

Cheers
Ian