Help! Another idiot question - I need help again. Display settings

[JerseygirlCT]

I stupidly updated my display driver. Which caused all the resolution settings to go back to tiny. (This wasn't how the machine came out of the box, but it was what it went to after a tech had to reformat my drive a while back).

Problem is, when I either right click on the desktop, or go into display/settings from Control Panel - the computer freezes.

It had stopped doing that much for a while, but now I've had to hard boot the thing 4 times in an hour trying to fix this.

Any suggestions for getting around this?

I don't even remember exactly what I did a couple of years ago to get things back to rights, but I was hoping once I got in there, I'd remember. Now I can't even get there!

TIA

[canetoad]

1. You may have to go back to the old driver

Right click My Computer, select Properties > Hardware tab > Device Manager.

Click on the + beside Display Adapters, right click your graphics card and select Properties. Click on the Driver tab and select Roll Back Driver.

Hope this works for you :)

[JerseygirlCT]

2. Thanks, Canetoad

I had already rolled it back, but it didn't change the screen resolution. So I still need to adjust that, but can't do it!

Display/settings and it just freezes - have to hard boot.

Would it be different if I tried it in safe mode?

[canetoad]

3. Safe mode can't hurt

lol, I guess that's why it's called that.

What about the control panel of your graphics card? Can you get into that? If your card is Radeon, somewhere in your start menu programs will be Catalyst Control Centre. If it's Nvidia have a look in your control panel for the Nvidia control panel.

On edit: thinking about it, safe mode may be the way to go as the graphics card drivers won't be loaded.

[JerseygirlCT]

4. Thanks

I seem to be able to reset things in safe mode.

LOL, although I always have a problem with that, because then it looks funny switched back.

This computer is making me even nuttier than usual...

(I also did sfc /scannow. It took a good 35 minutes, but nothing happened. Does it report if it fixed anything, or do I just assume that anything that needed fixing was taken care of?)

[JerseygirlCT]

5. Oh crap

resolution changes did stay when I restarted not in safe mode.

[JerseygirlCT]

6. Removed flash player again

(don't remember asking it back, but it was back) and now I can get into settings to change the resolution to something lower.

Sorry to be such a bother!

[canetoad]

7. Can't figure why flash should affect

your ability to use Display Properties. One of the mysteries of the universe but it sound like there is something else going on under the hood. When you get your display set up right, are you going to reinstall Flash and see what happens?

[JerseygirlCT]

8. You know, for a long time, we've had little glitches with any

pdf's that are opened. They mean the machine doesn't shut down correctly - we have to kill something left hanging by the pdf.

So I'm thinking maybe I need to just remove adobe, period, and try reinstalling that and flashplayer.

I'm stumped, but as soon as I removed it, I could at least get into my display settings again.

Weirdness.