display issues

Hi all, I have just upgraded to Windows 8 over Windows 7 and the installation went smoothly. It appeared that my monitor (Asus VH 222) was set on too low a resolution to get some of the applications to work so I was in the process of changing this when I got an out of range signal and the...

Hey everyone. Looks like I've finally gotten the "3B" BSOD that seems to be making its rounds. Unfortunately, in my case, nothing has changed on the system, except location (I moved, and transported my machine with me). I've opened up the system and physically reseated everything to ensure...

Link Removed So I'm having a funky Windows7 problem - on certain screens (usually windows based screens like within the Control Panel, but not always just there) - I'm getting blank ASCII boxes in place of the usual text characters. It's really random and doesn't happen on every Windows related...

Consider this scenario: A computer running Windows Vista or above Your computer support two or more monitors You have configured the display Duplicate (Clone Mode) Your display is not set to use Windows Aero You play a DVD movie with Windows Media... More...

Consider this scenario; A computer running Windows Vista or above Your computer support two or more monitors You have configured the display Duplicate (Clone Mode) Your display is not set to use Windows Aero You play a DVD movie with Windows Media... More...

Link RemovedDear People, I have a mistifying problem that I have not been able to permanently solve for a long time. The Start Menu area Text appears smudged and barely visible when the Start button is clicked. I am referring to the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window...

Timeout causes graphics card to fail. Occasionally, when on a web page with pictures/video/flash, the screen will "freeze" and have some random colored pixels appear or sometimes it will just go black. Sometimes when this happens the whole system will remain locked. Other times it will...

My old hard drive died, and I finally got a new one for my laptop (XPS L501X). Before, my resolution was at 1366x768. Now, my resolution is at 1024x768, and I can't adjust it any higher. I have an NVIDIA 420 M, and I have reinstalled the drivers countless times in many different orders. I...

When I look at the thumbnails of my jpgs, they are grayed and harder to work with. I would like to make them just a normal small image of the original. They are not corrupted when I double-click on them, they launch the image viewer and look fine. I'm using Windows 7 with automatic updates.

Hi Here's a picture of what I'm talking about. Is this what everyone sees? Link Removed Mike

I don't even know where to start. Or how to search for this one. I am using Vista Home Premium. Everything boots up 100% fine, navigation through files & folders - perfect. The computer is not slow. The only program is going into Internet Explorer, getting out on the web. When I open...

Hello there everyone. In desperate need of some help, and hopefully I can find some answers here. I was trying to install a program perhaps an hour ago, and it looked as though it wouldn't function properly unless in Test Mode. So I looked around a bit on google for the appropriate command...

Hello! I had a terrible time trying to get my ASUS K52 laptop to sleep and hibernate (win 7 home premium). I scoured the net looking at all kinds of things like using the commands: powercfg -a powercfg -devicequery wake_armed sfc -scannow I tried to boot into safe mode and never did figure...

Hello Please help me ........ I have windows 7 ultimate while i was installing it was booting and showing a background with courser but not showing installation window ... please help me with this ....

Hello, I recently was away for about a month and I did not use my desktop for that period of time. I tried turning it on yesterday and it would show the BIOS screen and then a black screen. It doesn't display anything else. I tried searching this problem and have tried various suggestions. I...

There are random pure green pixels appearing and disappearing on my DVI-D monitor. They only appear when something is moving such as a video, or the Minecraft main menu background, but I know they aren't dead, because they move when I move the window. If it matters i also have a VGA monitor...

My laptop (dell latitude e6520) just came back from having windows 7 reinstalled after the hard drive failed and all sorts of stuff is screwed up. My primary frustration is coming from the fact that my computer is not detecting anything that I plug into my HDMI port (I'm trying to hook it up to...

Hi, my new laptop's screen has a weird stain at the bottom, I can't get rid of it can you guys tell me what is it and how can I fix it myself? I still got the warranty but I don't want to send the laptop to repair because It's too much trouble there must be a way I can fix it myself so...

After installing American McGee's Alice on my laptop, none of my games would run fullscreen mode right. Instead of scaling the image to my screen, the game is centered with a black border around it. I've tried lowering my resolution, only the same thing would happen to my screen. Is there...

Got some problems with the DPI om my MSI GE70 notebook (win 64-bit). When I open a program with non-expanding window, boxes cut off text/buttons/fields to the right and bottom. I have already tried Adjust screen resolution / Adjust font size / Adjust DPI / Adjust clear type but no luck there...