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Screen Resolution Issue, Itunes? Vista?

Hello!
Ok, so every time I open Itunes my screen resolution gets automatically switched to the lowest possible resolution. An itunes pop up keeps saying:

"For best results with itunes, use a screen resolution of at least 1024x768. You can change this setting in Display Settings".

Which doesn't make sense to me anyway because why would it be switched to low when its saying it needs to be higher?

I go into control panel and switch it back to a higher resolution only to have the same problem EVERY time I open itunes. I'm using vista but the pop ups are definitely from itunes. A second pop up message that shows up is:

"Itunes.exe has been set to run in compatibility mode for an older version of windows. For best results turn off compatibility mode for itunes before you open it."

So, I check under properties for itunes.exe and compatibility mode is NOT checked off. I can't figure out where to turn off compatibility. This issue and the pop ups only started after I ran itunes "as administrator" so vista would let me edit song information.
Can anyone help me?
Thanx 🙂

Windows Vista

Posted on Dec 2, 2008 7:03 PM

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Dec 4, 2008 6:00 PM in response to -tanz-__

So I've answered my own question. In the properties tab of itunes.exe I went into Settings for all Users and unchecked the screen resolution option. Relatively simple, but it proved exceedingly frustrating. I guess in Vista you just have to uncheck everything twice. I still can't get rid of the compatibility mode message, but that was the least of my worries.

Screen Resolution Issue, Itunes? Vista?

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