Unusual display appearance that resets itself after 5 minutes

[chalky70]

On power up, my PC display is presented as a full black screen with all the desk top icons over sized. I can log on to my profile and apart from the appearance the computer has no other problems.

If I right click from the desk top and select

Properties -> Appearance -> Scheme

then it is shown as being High Contrast#1. This can be changed to Windows Standard and this takes care of the normal desk top display, however if I use the internet then the text size appears to big for the frames and the background web colours are always whited out.

If I do nothing on the PC for 5 minutes (i.e. not touching the keyboard/mouse) then the appearance resets itself automatically, including the internet appearance. I have tried disabling the screen saver to see if this has any affect but still can't find out the cause and the cure - apart from resetting the appearance above which is a pain to do each time, and it doesn't work for web appearnce as stated.

Has someone come across this before or got any suggestions..

thanks,

Jay

 

[MarcLodge]

It's possibly a variant of the MDMA virus which messes about with the high contrast setting, but I think this is unlikely.Best check your machine to be safe.

I did tho find a thread in google which might be of interest:

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?h...2f853%2435336590%24a301280a%40phx.gbl&rnum=13

Hope this helps
Marc

 

[hexusall]

I have seen a lot of prank software that does this kind of thing. Check the programs that are running see if anything looks out of the ordinary. Has anyone used your computer that might like to play a trick on you?