Help! I can't get my display settings to allow me to change my monitor type. The low refresh rate is killing me!!! The monitor tab just shows the "Monitor Type" as "Default Monitor", with the "Properties" command button grayed out. Any help would be very much appreciated.

What you need to do is right click on My Computer --> Properties --> Hardware --> Device Manager, you will now have a list of all the hardware installed on your computer, go to the section with your monitor and and double click on it, then do update driver and select the one for your make of monitor,

If this doesn't work you may also need to upgrade the drivers for your graphics card

I had already checked ... "Monitors" doesn't show up under "Device Manager" ... anywhere. I installed nVidia's Detonator 3 drivers for my Diamond Viper V770 video card a few weeks ago and I was able to select my Hitachi SuperScan 753 monitor then. I'll try re-installing the driver and see if that fixes the problem.

Microsoft has discovered that it has shut out non-Administrator users of Windows 2000 Professional/Server/Advanced Server from changing a display setting. If you go to Display Properties, click the Settings tab, and click Advanced, the font Size box is inactive. Microsoft is testing a fix, which will be in a future service pack.

That's well and good, but I'm logged on as "Administrator" when I try to set the monitor. Any other ideas???

What you can do then is try and add it under new hardware, and see if it lets you install it then