This is my issue - I defragmented my computer (Windows XP) for the first time in... three years. Everything went fine, 100% completion and it worked normally, faster, for the next hour or so. Then I restarted and that's when my troubles started :/

It seems when I restarted, my computer defaulted to a dual monitor setup at 800x600 resolution... but I don't have two monitors. Also, it seems to be showing the right monitor of the supposed two monitors, as the pointer can't go off any edge of the screen except to the left.

I can't open anything, as the taskbar is missing, and whenever I right click -> properties to try and change this, the window won't show up... at least not on my screen.

I've tried resetting the monitor to factory settings, multiple restarts, going into safe mode (which also failed... when I restart, windows hangs at a black screen for a minute or so then flashes blue, and then just shows my skewed desktop. If I hit F8 to go into safe mode as it is starting up, I hear a beep, and it just stays at the black screen.).

Any help and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

-lob

I have one other idea, but I want to make sure I won't damage my computer before I do it:

If I switch out my current graphics card (nvidia geforce 6200 OC) that supports dual monitors, with the basic one that came with my computer (some old intel one) that does not support dual monitors

will it revert back to a single monitor setting, allowing me to change stuff?

switching the graphics card did fix my problem, except I now have a shitty graphics card in operation


if I just put the good one back in, it should work correctly now, right?

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edit :putting the nvidia card back into my computer reverts to the same dual monitor no loading screen issue

is there any way to fix that? x.x

thanks you alienfrombeyond + friend

s'all good and fixed now