Hi:

I've been having a heck of a time with two new MS patches (KB938194 and KB938979) on my Vista XPS 410. The machine is set up to automatically download and install patches at 10 p.m.

Before installing these latest patches, the graphics card (an NVIDIA GeForce 7300LE) had 11 display modes available, up to 1680x1050 (which is my preferred resolution).

After installing these patches, there were only 6 display modes available on booting, the maximum being 1280x1024! Reexamination some time later showed that a seventh mode was now available: 1900x1400 (or thereabouts, I didn't make an exact note), which my monitor cannot display.

I used system restore to return the OS to its pre-install state. I again had the original 11 display modes available.

That same evening, the problem patches were again downloaded and re-installed. Again, post-installation number of modes = 6. Again, used system store to restore 11 display modes. This time, disabled automatic patch installation to prevent it buggering up my system again.

[Btw, the notes of system restore claim that it won't affect userfiles. However, one of the system restores messed up one of my GIMP processes, causing one assigned exponent to be "lost" (fortunately, the exponent was still allocated to me and I just reinserted it into my worktodo.ini file).]

Has anyone else experienced this problem with the two patches? I am leery about leaving automatic installation disabled, but until this problem is resolved I don't really have any choice.

Grunwalder