need to recover from odd desktop screen

bobkat said:

A friends PC has this odd desktop screen when starting up. I suspect that he has altered something by accident but cannot see what he has done. Can anyone suggest a cure.

Thanks

bobkat

@bobkat

Quite likely your friend has it in Tablet Mode. Check this setting in the Action Menu, bottom right of taskbar. If highligted, it is on, click to turn it off.

bobkat said:

Thanks for that info. He is 94 and not too well at the moment and tends to press buttons to try them out.

I have never noticed that option on my own PC but on your instruction found it this morning.

I shall call on him and try it out.

Again, thanks.
Bobkat

Best wishes to your friend. Hope this straightens things out. TC

bobkat said:

Hi again. Ifirst carried out your suggestion on my own laptop and I was able to switch touch screen on and off. no problem. Today, I went across to my friend fully sure that I was going to cure his screen problem.

Afraid not. Switching the button for touch screen did nothing on his PC. Any further suggestions would be gratefully received. His monitor is a fairly large LG TV/Montor combined but he doesn't have it set up as a tv. Not sure if it would have any effect anyway.

I found out today that he is 94 on next Friday. I am only 82.

bobcat

Only other thing I can think of off the top of my head, the system thinks it really is a "tablet". You could try uninstalling the device and driver, reboot, and let Windows try to recognize the LG/Monitor again. Sometimes if you mess too much with cables or settings it gets confused real fast.