Windows 10: After Start, Win10 Only Fills Half the Screen

Seems the windows resizing began during or right after holidays. More than likely it occurred after an update I hadn't noticed until after January. I went and started up HP laptop running Win10 22H2 and it opened in my default, Firefox. However after I opened up the next site, the tab still opened in Firefox but window only fills half the screen and continues to do the same thereafter. Any idea what can be the problem? I've tried all the normal areas to no avail. Lost... Thanks for any help you can suggest. Seems I spend "half" my time working out the roll outs until a fix is found... and I'm

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My laptop boots up to a nonresponsive "normal" screen half the time

I have an HP Pavilion with Windows 10. Normal startup has me pressing the power button, Win10 loads, and I get a sign-in screen. I type my password and go to the desktop, all good. Half the time, every other startup, I push the power button, Win10 loads to a different screen and is completely unresponsive. The screen is the "normal" Windows full-screen photo. There is a power indicator in the lower right, and next to it is the network icon only it has an "x" in it. There is no cursor, the keyboard does not work, the mouse does not work, not even ctrl-alt-del works. Nothing works except to hold down the power button until I can feel the unit power down. Then I wait 5 or 10 seconds and push power on again, and the laptop will start normally. I have tried every suggestion I can find on the internet, but nothing is specific to this set of symptoms.

• Half the time the laptop boots up to a normal sign-in
  
• Half the time the laptop boots to a completely unresponsive "normal-looking" page
  
• It does not boot up to a black screen or blue screen
  
• There does not seem to be a different boot option or second OS
  
• No onboard Windows diagnostic has determined any issue
  

Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

 

How do I get the Windows 8.1 start screen in Windows 10?

Hi,



Apologies for the late reply.

I would suggest you to try the following steps:

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  Click Start icon and click Settings
  
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  Choose Personalization, click on Start
  
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  Turn on “Use start full screen”
  

Regards,

 

Overclocking / Undervolting guide for Vega 56 or 64?

Here's a quick laundry list:

List of software to use for overclocking and testing
Examples:
Wattman (and how to find and use it, like an overview, including profiles)
Unigine Valley or Heaven (use this for quick testing while changing settings in Wattman and checking for stability / artifacts) ...just suggesting this
How to monitor cores / mem speeds and temps during testing (I've seen screen overlays, and others using GPUz)

Step-by step overclocking in Wattman
Fan speeds
Power limit
Temp limit
Voltages
Core speeds
Memory speeds