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Question

Windows 10 laptop screen problem

Sep 26, 2018 1:40AM PDT

Hi

I recently got a problem with my laptop screen. I keep on seeing some text from the propreties window when you press the right button of the mouse on your empty desktop (as shown on the image on the link here www.ibb.co/eSkMHK).
The only way i found to get rid of it is to restart my computer.

I would appreciate an aswer from you guys. Thanks in advance !!

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To me this sounds like a video driver issue.
Sep 26, 2018 12:25PM PDT

Try this though.

Click the left button on the desktop once. (Right if you swapped buttons.) Now tap F5. What happens?

Before the video driver work, did anyone change the (unknown make, model) laptop's BIOS settings. I did find a few laptops that you have to set the video RAM just so to avoid issues. On one machine you set it to the default low number and another you had to set it to max. Nice how consistent these are.

So the video driver. My method is to use the maker's version. But also you can try what you read at:
https://www.howtogeek.com/233115/the-only-way-to-safely-update-your-hardware-drivers-on-windows/

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Re: only way
Sep 26, 2018 1:27PM PDT

I think there is an alternative by going into Task manager and stopping Explorer. It will restart automatically and show the desktop again. Might be the whole desktop without this line.