Hey what's up AO? I don't know if this has already been posted months ago and I never found it, but I thought I would post this incase anyone else is going insane.

A few months ago I noticed that my computer wasn't as customized as it should be. I am the type of person to change the name and icon of 'My Computer', 'Network Places', etc. One day I noticed that these both were set to default after I would switch users/logout-login/or restart my computer. I laughed and thought maybe it was something I installed. Only if I knew...

Format after format I kept trying different things trying to figure out what the problem way. I was going insane, I couldn't find anything online explaining the problem... and I couldn't figure it out myself. I am one who knows that if all else fails... format/reload will fix the problem. Only this time it kept coming back, and only on my main gaming computer (which was the only place I ever had the problem).

I was getting so pissed off at something so simple and so stupid that I actually stopped using this computer all together for awhile. I would sign on to check my outlook, but I usually did that through a Remote Desktop channel from my laptop over the wireless. I stayed away as much as I could because this problem hunted me.

Well I started beta testing some software for M$, and was formatting to test out some ideas about their software. Well I then sat and tried one last time to figure out what was causing my problem. I spent 11 hours restarting my computer after I installed one program, one update, waiting for this issue to come up. It didn't, I sat and laughed louder and harder with each restart and the icons/names weren't changing. I got through ALL of the Windows updates, and ALL of my software that I install and nothing... it was being normal like it use to be a long LONG time ago.

I was so happy, finally had my computer back to the way it was! That was two days ago. Tonight I installed Jedi Academy and went to play it, and it came up saying that it couldn't load my Open GL drivers. I laughed because I forgot to do that after formatting so much over the past two days. I went to NVIDIA's website and downloaded the newest driver, as I always do to stay current and restarted my computer... only to find my problem way back. I sat back for a few minutes thinking. I uninstalled the drivers and restarted my computer again, happily to see that I could rename my system icons and change the icon's name once again and it would stick without going back to default.

Makes a person wonder doesn't it, how a video driver could do something like that. But I also noticed from when I installed the driver and uninstalled it, my boot time was greatly faster and my system wasn't as sluggish with just opening a folder. Not sure why this problem is like it is, or really how to fix it. I went to http://www.driverheaven.net/downloads/index4.htm to download a version of NVIDIA's this guy puts out for overclocking. It's an older version, so I thought maybe this would not cause the problem. Basing that on the fact I didn't have this problem a few months ago, when NVIDIA also put out their newest driver for their video cards.

Like I said before this problem has haunted me, and I just had to get this posted online to see if this has happened to anyone else. So if this problem was posted before, I'm sorry. But I think you can understand from my frustration came madness, and with madness... well you like to see if you're the only one or not.

Next I think I will check NVIDIA's site to see what they say, but I didn't see anything at a glance or receive anything through the email newsletter, so I wonder if they know or if this is truly a "big problem". I've got an older video card of theirs (GeForce 3 and my Ti 4200), so maybe that was the cause. Who knows?

Sincerely yours...
~AciDriveHB