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24th November 2017, 11:13 PM #1Product designer retired
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system restore
Talk about bloody difficult to find system restore.
I think windows 10 did an automatic update that buggered my screen up.
Suddenly all the text and icons were suddenly double their normal size. Instead of the icons taking up a strip on the left size of the screen, they now fill the entire screen and in higgledy de piggledy order.
After a lot of buggerizing around I finally found system restore where i was able to pick 17/11/2017 as the restore point. All was good until another update came along causing my original problem.
Now I can't get back to 17/11/2017 restore point, the only option I'm being offered is today's date 24/11/2017, 17/11/2017 is no longer in the list.
1. How to I force the system back to 17/11/2017?
2, How do I turn off automatic win10 update?
I hope someone can help, if you can, I'll need a step by step procedure.
Cheers Ken
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25th November 2017, 01:02 AM #2Novice
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I am not a computer geek.
I AM NOT A COMPUTER GEEK!
But I have experienced your problem. I you hold down the “control” button while you roll the scroll on your mouse, it will resize your icons and screen.
Don’t know if this works on Windows 10.
Good luck!
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25th November 2017, 02:12 AM #3Intermediate Member
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25th November 2017, 10:19 PM #5
I may be a dumb jackass, but two things come to mind but I am not up to Win 10, my latest is 7.
From your description, it may that the video card driver only has updated incorrectly. There is probably a utility for the video card to configure it. Alternatively you may need to get into the Display section of the Control Panel and set the display size to something like 1920 x 1080. Re restoring back to the 17th, yes that should take everything back to before the update, but if it is not actively prevented by you, it will automatically download and install the update that caused the issue, recreating it unless whoever is responsible for the update has noted the issue and withdrawn the update and replaced it with a corrected version.
Also, check the time stamp on the 24/11 restore point. See if it is around the time you did the previous restore, it may be effectively the same restore point with an updated date/time stamp to reflect when you restored it. Alternatively, if it is obviously some time later, then it would relate to the faulty update.I used to be an engineer, I'm not an engineer any more, but on the really good days I can remember when I was.
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8th December 2017, 12:18 PM #6
Once you disable that stupid autoupdate and your system is stable, install RollBack RX (free) which will create a shot of your installation so when things go wrong you can simply load that shot.
RollBack RX is much better than Windows' own system restore which have many limitations AND is managed by M$crosoft in addition it'll disable it.
If you install it, don't forget to either disable any defragmenter task or not using them at all because they won't work since RollBack RX will handle the task.
I do troubleshooting and assemble computers and this software has saved me many times.
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8th December 2017, 12:36 PM #7
You can actually remove individual updates. As malb says, probably a video driver. I had a similar issue with an old Toshiba laptop where Windows wanted to install a higher revision video driver which was in reality incompatible with my video card. (Toshiba have a somewhat customised firmware on their laptop video chipsets.)
I had to go into updates, remove the offending update and disable this individual update.
Go to Windows update and select Update History. At the top you can select Uninstall Updates. You can then see the update history by date. You can then right click on the problematic update and uninstall. I *think* it will not apply that particular update again.
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8th December 2017, 11:19 PM #8Product designer retired
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I'm not really on top of Win 10, how do I disable auto update?
Ken
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8th December 2017, 11:55 PM #9
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