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I've bought a new monitor recently and now am able to display much higher resolutions. However, every time I reboot my machine, it's on 1280x1024, the resolution on my old monitor. I can set it to the highest resolution once logged on, but why can't Windows 7 remember the resolution I had before rebooting?

Any ideas? Thanks a lot!

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Have you tried updating your monitor drivers to see if that will keep the screen resolution?

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Yeah, it doesn't work. It's not the display drivers. Sometimes I reboot, it remembers the resolution after I log in and then... it switches back to original resolution my old monitor was in. – Dennis van der Stelt Mar 9 '11 at 20:06
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  1. Check the drivers for your monitor in Device Manager. If posible use specific drivers for your hardware.
  2. Upgrade your display adapter drivers if possible.
  3. Do a full shut down after setting the resolution. I had an issue where a users monitors (in Win7) would clone each other (rather than extend the desktop) after each restart and wouldn't remember the extend setting until a full shutdown was performed.
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See comment on other answer by w7pro – Dennis van der Stelt Mar 9 '11 at 20:06
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