It's definitely not the DRM, which only restricts the ability to play media files in stupid ways.
Most likely this is a registry corruption issue. Backup and reinstall. -Adam On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:39 PM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > It sounds like you've run afoul of Microsoft's Digital Rights Management > system. Though I thought that it only really was this bad in Vista. > > Joseph Tainter wrote: >> >> Sorry for the OT question, but the knowledge on this list is incredible. I >> hope someone can help me. >> >> I have a Dell laptop running XP. On Wednesday I installed a new, 19", >> 1280x1024 external Viewsonic monitor. At the same time I installed a little >> utility called Desktop Restore, which restores the position of your icons if >> they get rearranged. All seemed well until today--everything seemed to be >> working fine. >> >> Today I was using Firefox to search for a hotel in Stockholm. Suddenly >> Zone Alarm popped up a window saying something was trying to access the >> internet. I clicked on "Deny," but Zone Alarm wouldn'd respond and I >> couldn't get the message off my screen. So I rebooted the computer. That's >> when the problems started. Here they are: >> >> 1. My 1280 x 1024 monitor will only show in 1024 by 768. I cannot get it >> to switch to the correct resolution and stick. >> >> 2. Now the monitor on the laptop also comes up in 1024 x 768 when I boot >> up. This monitor I can get to the correct resolution (1280 x 800) by >> manually setting it in Properties. But I shouldn't have to do that. >> >> 3. Suddenly System Restore no longer works. I cannot go back to a previous >> restore point. >> >> 4. So I ran AVG Antivirus 8.5, after first updating it. I had it scan the >> entire drive. It could not find any viruses. >> >> Can anyone think of what may be going on? What should I try? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Joe >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > -- > > > The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or > drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a > damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is > not a free man any more than a dog. > > --G. K. Chesterton > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
