Windows 10: a black bar on top of my screen

hey there,

any ideas on how to hide this black bar?!

:)

 

Black Bar top


I am having an issue, I have a W10 machine where the default resolution is 2560 x 1600 but when I go to 1920 x1080 this happens:





A black bar is across the top and blocks any view, any ideas?

 

Games cause black bars on screen

Hi Ethan,

For us to better assist you with your black bar issue on screen, we'd like to ask a few questions.

• Have you made any updates or changes to your computer before experiencing this issue?
• Have you installed all pending updates on the computer?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

Looking forward to your response.

 

Black Screen on startup

In case the above steps do not fix the black screen perform the following steps:
1) open administrative command prompt and type or copy and paste
2 )sfc /scannow
3) dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
4) chkdsk /scan
5) net user test /add
6) When these have completed > right click on the top bar or title bar of the administrative command prompt box > left click on edit then select all > right click on the top bar again > left click on edit then copy > paste into the thread
7) shutdown /r
8) sign on with the new user named test
9) report into the thread whether the new user does or does not have a black screen problem.

10) If the black screen occurs with both users reboot the computer into safe mode:
Boot into Safe Mode on Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

11) report into the thread whether the black screens occur or do not occur in safe mode

12) run this version of the log collector and post a zip into the thread:
log collector v2-beta08.zip