Re: Display Changed please help

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From: Olcay Buyan (olcay_at_mcecustomizer.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:36:44 +0100

Hi Andy,

I don't know if this works for built in displays but try this:

1. Go to START -> Run and write "regedit.exe" (without the "")
2. Click OK and you should see the Registry Editor in front of you
3. Navigate to:
    "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media
Center"
4. Choose Edit -> New -> DWORD Value
5. Give it the name -> "TVSkin" (Without the "") and the value 0
6. Close the Registry Editor and restart your machine

The value 0 (NULL) means that MCE will optimize for LCD / Plasma. When you
give it the value 1 it will optimize for traditional TV.

Olcay 

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Olcay Buyan
Olcay@MCECustomizer.com
www.MCECustomizer.com
"AndyW" <AndyW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:677D5609-89B3-4A76-9232-906496210A55@microsoft.com...
> Hi. I am new to Media Centre edition, but after messing around for a few
> hours I have noticed something strange and wonder if any of you can shed 
> any
> light on the matter.
>
> The problem is that when you load windows (not the media centre) my 
> display
> runs fine (17" Widescreen Flat Panel LCD (the default one built into my
> laptop)) which runs via a 128mb GeForce FX Go5700. It runs in 32bit colour 
> at
> a resolution of 1440 X 900).
>
> When I come to load windows media centre it appears to degrade the quality
> of the resolution. While the resolutions appears to stay the same the 
> display
> goes blank and then comes back on. I notice at this point the colours 
> aren't
> as good as in windows desktop and the image becomes really sharp and 
> crisp,
> not good at all. I havr re-ran the setup for media centre and other things
> but still can't stop this from happening.
>
> If I window the media centre and then re-full size it it keeps the windows
> desktop quality until the screen refreshed at which point it returns to 
> the
> lower quality.
>
> When i exit the media centre and go back to windows the screen refreshes
> again and returns to the windows default.
>
> Can anyone help or shed some light on this matter?

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