Windows 10: Display is Fuzzy

I was working on my computer and accidentally hit an "unknown" key on my keyboard. My screen suddenly resized itself and the icons are huge and really fuzzy.

I went into Display and tried to fix it that way but it didn't work. I also wanted to restore my computer to an hour earlier and could not find the section to restore the computer to a specific time.

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Fuzzy display that goes away if text is selected or refreshed


Hello,
I have a strange issue, this started about a week ago after Creators' update. I have the system to auto-update all software and features from Microsoft. All drivers are up to date. I have manually installed the latest display driver for this laptop.
Issue:

• When I have many windows open, the display crumbles only in selected parts of the screen as shown in the attached picture.
• This flickering doesn't happen in safe mode (with networking).
• Doesn't happen with a live USB linux session either.
• This is reversed upon selecting the text (for example in a webpage or a word processor document).

System specs: Windows 10, founders update. Intel 4 series express chipset (Centrino processor) with 5gb of ram running windows 10 creators update.










Solutions tried so far with no success:

• Text scaling and DPI scaling,
• installing various drivers including Windows 7 drivers for this display,
• Going to safe mode, uninstalling the driver and deleting it and restarting,
• uninstalling most of the programs and features (except MS office and a few other essentials)

Can anybody help please?
thanks and best regards
Raghu

 

Fuzzy/Blurry letters on external display (DPI scaling issue?)

Hello -

Relevant data

• Microsoft Surface Book - i5 - 256 GB with NVIDIA GeForce GT 940M
• LG 34UM58-P - Ultrawide IPS Monitor (Also tried on an acer HD monitor)
• High quality mini display to HDMI cable
• Windows 10 Pro 1709
• Surface Book just freshly set up

Description

• In essence, all text (not only in browsers, but also in generic windows menus, see images below) are slightly fuzzy - while being tack sharp on the Surface Book display.
• Based on my search on this forum and the wider web, this is a known issue, but none of the solutions or workaround suggested have worked for me. ( Been spending a full day and a half on researching this and I think I tried them all)

Display settings Settings

• On Surface Book: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ak9o9k2gayroq96/surface_settings.jpg?dl=0
• On LG ultrawide: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mwwlj5ucs1uhqm3/LG_settings.jpg?dl=0

Illustrative images/screenshots

• Fuzzy text on windows start menu on external monitor:https://www.dropbox.com/s/ay582hlpdnfv2rl/LG_menu.jpg?dl=0
• Fuzzy text on the menu of this forum on external monitor:https://www.dropbox.com/s/dqu08vkjixpis2s/LG_text.jpg?dl=0
• For reference the same menu on the display of Surface Book:https://www.dropbox.com/s/uwzi303v8i61eqz/surface_text.jpg?dl=0

I believe this is a known bug in Windows 10, where it can not correctly handle 2 monitors with different DPI scaling. The posts on this forum suggest that the latest versions of Windows should have fixed this issue, but for me this is not the case - as I
am indeed running the latest version of Windows 10

(I also posted this in the Surface forum, but since this appears to be a Windows issue and not a Surface one, I thought I would try my luck here. Apologies for the cross post.)

Any advise greatly appreciated.

 

Display distorted but not fuzzy






When scroll over clears up but screen is often distorted and hard to read.