I thought our 2300 sq ft. house was just perfect for the 3 of us... - then we decided I traveled too much for work and opened up my own business - in the house - then things grew and I added an employee - in the house - Then hubby took early out from the University and expanded his tax & consulting practice - in the house - then his practice grew and he added a part ime employee - in the house - then things really got successful and some parts of the year he can have as many as 3 employees - in the house!!! Net effect is that our 4 bedroom house some days feels like a 1 bedroom office - we no longer have a home. We are building on 20 acres in the country - house with a good sized office wing. I've redesigned about a dozen times and can't seem to get it down below 5000 sq ft. So, for us (and the assorted clients, employees and visiting relatives) I guess the perfect size is 5000 sq ft.

All was as I had set last night when I shut down normally. Had all programs and windows shut before I clicked the shut down icon. No updates done that recently, either. I'm convinced there are gremlins who do this! LOL!

You might unplug the vga, then try to bootup in safe mode by tapping the F8 key on boot. It's a long shot, but just may get a minimal display screen where you could go back in and change the display settings. I use s-video from my pc to tv, so don't have any experience with the vga setup to tv. Never had a screen go black from any of the settings.

rather than do that I would do a real quick simple system restore because those may not be the only settings that got changed, doing one to a time just before all that happened should put your pc exactly back to how you had it set up. A system restore is really easy and quick to do you just choose a date to go back to from the calendar presented and then reboot basically. System Restore