Re: User Settings Disappearing; Monitor Settings Unstable; Desktop Search Overtakes System; Laptops Unusable

I assume you've ruled out virus/malware/rootkit? And no one is doing a
system restore which would take them back before the latest settings?

What anti virus are you using?



"Vista User" <> wrote in message
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>I have a business which uses five HP Pavilion laptops, each of which is
>under a year old, as well as two new HP desktops, all running Vista
>Ultimate and Vista Ultimate x64. Each has 4GB of RAM and at least dual
>core processors. All are running with only MS operating systems and MS
>software, nothing else.
>
> In every instance, the user settings (folder display settings, search
> settings, RDP connectivity) will change no matter how often they are
> reset, reconfigured, or reorganized. It sometimes changes within five
> minutes; other times, after a reboot; and then again seem to stay fixed,
> only to change to some aggravatingly off-target arrangement after three
> reboots. Large icons displayed when Detail View is selected; Music and
> Video folder settings repeatedly applied over Document folders.
>
> When giving a very stressful presentation today, my newer HP laptop with
> Vista Ultimate spent over 15 minutes trying to adapt to the same HD
> monitor I had set up earlier this morning. It never displayed on the
> large monitor, and wouldn't let me access any settings on the laptop.
> Unplugging the HD monitor gave me my laptop monitor back, but wouldn't
> display the HD settings with the HD monitor disconnected. I pulled out a
> backup laptop (also HP Pavilion, also pre-configured for Vista Ultimate,
> and also pre-set up for the same HD monitor), and it failed to recognize
> the large screen as either a VGA monitor, HDMI display or even a
> bare-bones S-VIDEO device. I had had that same laptop and same HD monitor
> finally running together yesterday, after hours of rebooting, and thought
> the settings were good. Today, the Vista Ultimate settings, of course,
> reset to put both of my laptops, and my business presentation, in the most
> unworkable, unusable and frustratingly incompetent state I could have only
> expected from someone out to put me out of business.
>
> WHAT IS IT with Vista Ultimate and the configuration settings that I am
> unable to rely upon when trying to ready my presentation hardware that
> refuses to stay configured??!
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