A problem with fresh install and screen resolution

I'm not too sure what you mean by "never has and never will", as it was working properly before I uninstalled it.

My graphics card I have is ATI Radeon express but what my windows 7 is running is VGA standard adapter

Jazz23 said:

I'm not too sure what you mean by "never has and never will",

Just what I said, there is not now and never will be a Windows 7 driver for that video chipset. ATI declared it legacy and basically dropped support for it, and seeing as ATI is the only one to write drivers for ATI products HP/Compaq cannot provide anything newer than what they have (not that most laptop manufacturers usually provided much more than the driver that the laptops shipped with whether there was an update from the device manufacturer or not). As a result for any video cards like the one in your laptop the best you can use is the last Vista driver, and for those that are even older the last XP driver.

My graphics card I have is ATI Radeon express but what my windows 7 is running is VGA standard adapter

That means that the driver you tried to install didn't. If it didn't install properly or at all then something is blocking it. Did you try running the installer using Vista compatibility mode and the ran as administrator options?

Failing that check Windows Update and see what it has to offer. In most cases I avoid recommending WU for drivers, but in the case of older hardware like that it usually doesn't make a difference if it is there and used.