"Martin Leese" wrote in
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I messed up, and now have the blue screen of
death.

I have an IBM laptop running Windows XP. I
changed the screen resolution and, even
though I go the original resolution back,
when the machine reboots I get a plain blue
screen.

Windows XP fires up, and the user icon is
displayed. Then, when I click on the icon
it says it is loading my personal settings,
but then I get the blue screen.

With the blue screen, the cursor is
displayed and can be moved around. Also,
my anti-virus software (running in the
background) pops up a box asking if it can
update its virus database. So, XP seems to
be running fine. It is just that I am
presented with nothing but a plain blue
screen.

Please, how do I get my personal settings
back?

What personal settings are you talking about? Desktop color/picture? Right
click the desktop,select "Properties" and see if one of the saved themes is
what you want. If not you can rebuild them from the various tabs.

If not the desktop stuff and if one of the automatic registry backups
predates the problem, you could restore that registry, Google for the
methodology. That would also put back your desktop settings.

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dadiOH
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