Sorry Lady,

I had a busy weekend and kinda overlooked this thread but I see Snoopy lend you a hand a bit. This is a long thread and I see the list of issues has changed drastically. Would it be fair to ask what the current 'actual' problems you are having so we could concentrate on them or the screen resolution/icon issue is it?

Due to system problems, the Video Card's drivers could have gotten hosed (corrupted and therefore discarded by the Operating System) which would explain Windows displaying low resolution/color depth and displaying errors like video card has no drivers installed.

Bad or incompatible (if there were multiple sticks installed) PC100/PC133 type SDRAMs (an older RAM type) were notorious with causing Windows to lose the Video card drivers or not see it even after installing the Video card drivers over and over, defaulting back to the default screen settings (640x480 and 16 color depth) where Windows XP would default back to 800x600 and 256 color depth.

Also as Snoopy mentioned your current screen settings could be more then what either the Video card or (more likely) the monitor could handle, again you would have to give us more info on your system and the size/type of your monitor. If you have an LCD monitor, regardless of its size, keep it as 60Hz unless the monitor's manual does specify supporting higher refresh rates (usually 70Hz or 75Hz at the most).
For CRT type monitor, the screen resolution, color depth and refresh rate are all matters and are directly linked to one another. for example, a 17" CRT monitor could support 1280x1024 resolution with 32 bit color depth but only at 60Hz. In order to increase the refresh rates to make it easier on your eyes, either the color depth or the resolution would have to be decreased.

Again, we need more info.

Oh, also to take a screenshot and paste it, you need nothing else but this:

1) To take a screenshot of everything visible on your screen, press 'Print Screen' key on your keyboard (usually, on top row, to the right of F12 key).

2) Then, START > RUN > (type) mspaint > OK.

3) When MS Paint opens up with a blank image area, hold down the CTRL key and press V to paste the screenshot into it.

4) Once done, from the File menu on top, FILE > SAVE AS..

Note: If you like to capture only the active window, hold down the ALT key before you press the 'Print Screen' key.

Sorry for the late reply, Judy should be back tomorrow to follow up.

~TL