Windows reset itself?!

[Rob Williams]

Last night, I installed both an AMD Radeon HD 6870 and that new Intel NIC into my rig, boot into Windows and gasped at what I saw... reset settings. No more quick launch icons, default wallpaper, et cetera. It's a good thing I had a recent system restore point to recover to, else it would have been a major pain in the ass to reconfigure the OS to my liking.

Any of you ever have that happen? I just installed some hardware, why does Windows need to spaz out!

 

[TheCrimsonStar]

if there's a big change of hardware with Win7, it'll reset everything to stock settings because everything had previously been applied with the old hardware's drivers. it happened when I was testing out Win7 on my P4. put a video card in and it changed itself back to stock settings for the taskbar and stuff

 

[Rob Williams]

There's still no reasonable logic behind that, though. Settings shouldn't just reset because some new hardware is installed. I've installed different GPUs before and had Windows nag at me for being an illegal copy, but usually it's fixed immediately with a reactivation that doesn't even look like it goes online to do. I can handle that, but to have all the settings reset, ugh!

Happy birthday, by the way

 

[TheCrimsonStar]

Happy birthday, by the way

Thanks finally 18 xD

 

[Doomsday]

Thanks finally 18 xD

18! Aaah, to be young! Have a nice birthday!

 

[madstork91]

Occasionally mine sets a static wallpaper instead of cycling through my massive selection.

(btw: adding pics to your windows folder that you want to include is a much better option than trying to be selective inside your my pics library.)