I wanted to get this online in some public place so people doing a google on this same issue might find some ideas.

HOWEVER, ANYTHING YOU DO TO YOUR COMPUTER IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.  I’m not advising you to do anything, I’m just sharing my experience with the issue.

BTW, my 2nd monitor is an LG Flatron, but I really don’t see how that would make a difference with any of the issues noted in this post.

Issue: Display settings reset about every 3 minutes (sometimes less)

Fresh out of the box, I turned on my new Fujitsu LifeBook T5010, went through the 1st time "welcome to vista" stuff and then dropped it in the docking cradle so I could use my second monitor.  I set my display setting to use both the laptop screen and my monitor and to "extend" my desktop onto my second monitor.  Then I popped on line to download firefox or crome or something, my screen went black for a second and came back with both monitors on and in clone view.  This was the issue… about 20 time in the first 3 hours, my display settings would simply reset and I’d have to reset them.  I was, of course, unhappy (an understatement) and on the verge of putting it back in the box and sending it back because it’s useless to me if my second monitor wasn’t going to work (and after paying a few thousand dollars for it…ug!).

Solution

The short answer:

1. open the task manager (ctrl+alt+del) and click on the processes tab, then locate the "FjEvents.exe".  Right click on it and end process.  
2. Now go to C:\Program Files\Fujitsu\Utils and rename the file "FjEvents.exe" to "FjEvents_disable.exe".

The long answer.  

I eventually realized that if I reset my display settings and then opened the task manager, 4 seconds later my display settings would be reset.  So I could reproduct the error 100% of the time.  From there I just started killing processes I didn’t recognise and then resetting my display settings and reopening the task manager until it didn’t happen again.  The problem went away when I ended task on a bunch of exe’s that all started with "Fj…".  I rebooted a couple times and narrowed it down to "FjEvents.exe"

after that I did a search on my computer for the exe and double clicked it… instantly my display settings were reset.

finally, I renamed the file in an attemp to disable it when the machine starts up.

Issues: Display settings reset on startup and when docked

as the title notes, if I started up the machine, it would reach my desktop and everything would be find, then something would cause my display settings to switch from extended desktop to clone view while the computer was still grinding away with the last parts of the startup.  I also noticed the display settings would also reset when I undocked and redocked the laptop.

Solution

The short answer:

1. find C:\Program Files\Fujitsu\Utils\FjDock.exe
2. renamed it to FjDock_disabled.exe

The long answer.

I found the directory that had FjEvents.exe in it and noted that it would reset my display settings if I double clicked on it.  So I started double clicking other "Fj…exe" files to see if they’d do the same.  I found that FjDispSw.exe and FjDock.exe both did… and since I’m using a docking station, I tried renaming FJDock.exe and rebooting.

The issue was gone on startup.  I then undocked and redocked the laptop a few times to make sure the FjDock.exe wasn’t doing something obviously needed… and my mouse and monitor continued to get detected every time a docked the laptop.