4870 and Vista...games are mostly defaulted to windowed mode???

Hi all!
I'm using the latest catalyst 8.1 driver and Vista Home Premium SP1. Using Samsung 22" (1680x1050)
i reinstalled Company of Heroes with latest patch and just installed Farcry 2.
When i fired up COH, it usually defaulted to windowed mode. So i have to like change it manually most of the time to full screen mode.  i thought it's just COH until i install Farcry 2.  FYI, i ran this 2 games in DX10.
Farcry 2 doesn't have the option to switch to full screen mode, thus it always started in windowed mode.  The window is like "shifted" down ward.  you can see the window bar on top but you can't see the side and bottom bars.  So the game is inside the downward shifted window.  When i ran the Farcry 2 benchmark tool, it says i'm running in window mode.  Everytime i switched it to full screen, and start the game, it went back to the same window mode.
can anyone offer me any advice?
thx

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=277019&referrerid=119633
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