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I have no descriptive title.
What kind of a title could describe this?
Some background.
When I first purchased this pc it came with windows 10.
(six months ago)
When I did the first boot to desktop the desktop was horrible!
The background was blurry and the colors on the desktop, the task bar and on every internet page were terrible.
Sign in boxes were colored where they should have been white and you couldn't read the writing/fonts within the boxes.
I sat and experimented for two days, trying to get a normal setting!
Nothing worked until, by accident I came upon something in the display.
I changed the settiing from a high number to a lower number and .. just like that, everything was normal!
Here is why I'm so upset
Last night the pc shut down and started updating.
The screen kept changing colors and the message that the pc would shut down and restart numerous times was displayed.
It took at least a half hour to update and when it did .. I am back at everything being messed up like it was when I first started out!!
I suspect microsoft forced a windows 10 upgrade on my pc when I didn't need one.
I already had widows 10!
Not only that, I wanted to do a restore and guess what .. the restore had been shut off and there were no restore points to return to even though I had numerous restore points before this 'upgrade'?
I have no idea where or how I made the changes from last time because I was just lucky.
Changing the DPI does nothing and if I remember, the last time .. when I fixed the problem, the box that I changed had to do with DPI or D something!
Before you ask, a screen shot wont help you to see the problem because on a normal pc, the screen shots look normal.
(I went through all of that the last time)
I have 'captured' the updates that it says I have installed within the last few days.
I haven't seen any update action today even though all of them are listed as today .. Except the one at the bottom?
Is That the update that messed me up from last night and can I remove it?
I Need Help!
Last edited by toosie; 09-29-2016 at 11:43 AM..
Reason: More appropriate title - please keep it PG-13 and don't try to bypass profanity filter
You no doubt have several problems to deal with here. What kind of machine do you have? What kind of display?
Your first goal is to make sure the display resolution is set properly. 1920x1080 is most common these days, but there are others. When your monitor output is set to the right size (settings/display/advanced settings), things may look small but that is easily fixed back to settings/display. Note the slider below "change the size...
Those two things should fix most of your problems. If not, check back in!
Go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Display, then click Change display settings. Make sure the Resolution setting matches the native resolution of your monitor. You can find that by searching for your particular monitor or laptop.
Go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Display, then click Change display settings. Make sure the Resolution setting matches the native resolution of your monitor. You can find that by searching for your particular monitor or laptop.
And thus yet another reason why I stayed with 7. I do not like anything forced on me, 10 was forced on those who did not know how to stop it, I did the research, so I knew how to stay with 7.
^ I like win10, but I do hate those forced updates. Historically, I found it best to wait a few weeks before installing an update, so MS could get the bugs out. Yes, some updates have been, and still are, buggy. But you can't delay anymore, and the most recent update does force some new software down our throats, although it can be removed.
All this in the quest to monetize our activities in the same manner that our smart phones do, that software like facebook and google do.
^ I like win10, but I do hate those forced updates. Historically, I found it best to wait a few weeks before installing an update, so MS could get the bugs out. Yes, some updates have been, and still are, buggy. But you can't delay anymore, and the most recent update does force some new software down our throats, although it can be removed.
All this in the quest to monetize our activities in the same manner that our smart phones do, that software like facebook and google do.
Funny thing is mine do end up delayed by at least 3 or 4 days, because Windows 10 is stupid. It waits until I am using the computer to go, "Hey, I need to update." To which I respond, "Too bad, I'm using this right now, schedule for 4am." It fails to update at 4am, and the next day while I am using it, the process repeats, it bugs me to update, I schedule, it fails to update at the scheduled time. I let this continue until such time as it actually does update on it's own at the scheduled time, and it is usually 3 or 4 days til it does, though I have had this happen for almost a full week once until it finally updated itself.
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