Please can someone help me, this is driving me mad, on a regular basis, when i boot up, the picture on my screen is all messed up, what i mean is that the pincushion effect has been applied,and I have to keep changing it back again. But i can never seem to get it just right. Then it may stay ok for a couple of days or hours and then at next boot up it has changed back again. I would really like to get this cleared up if anyone can help it would be much appreciated!!!!!

soniaj, some 'experts' disagree with the advice I'm gonna give, so be aware of that fact. Only thing I KNOW FOR SURE is that it worked for me! Be aware that ME and XP both have a feature called 'Restore'. A nasty (virus, spyware, etc) can hide there and since it is a 'Windows' file, Windows won't allow any alteration so long as it is active. The registry gets re-written on the next bootup and the last successful boot is used and since the boot appears to be sucessful, a 'nasty' gets replicated. The solution is simple (assuming that's the problem), TEMPORARILY disable Restore (in order to 'unprotect'), scan/clean, re-enable restore and try again. May have to reboot. If you decide to give that a whirl, I have a high degree of confidence that it'll work, but be aware that if you do as proposed, ALL your restore points will be erased (I feel like they're bad anyway) and you start over with them. My feeling is that something has reset your sceen and ... HTH. Ed in Texas.

Ed In Texas, when you say "Only thing I KNOW FOR SURE is that it worked for me!" Do you mean that you were having the problem that I described?

When i turned on the computer this morning, it had happened again, and i noticed that in the device manager, that the monitor had changed from the model it is, to 'default monitor'. So i updated the driver and it is back to the model. This has happened before, it keeps changing from the model to default monitor, and with the changes comes the pincushion effect.