*cue spooky music*

So, having tried everything else I decided to do a clean boot and see what would happen. The second screen came back.

I figured the cause would be a non-MS driver, so...

Hi dalchina. Sorry, it's an HP ENVY Notebook - 17-n007tx. The product ID is M9V64PA#ABG.



Oh dear. A support tech took hours to find the correct one?! That sounds like a nightmare of installing...

For many (at least 3) years, I have used a Philips 225PL2 monitor as an extended desktop. It's been driven by the HDMI port of my laptop via an HDMI-to-DVI cable and has always worked without a...

After a week of no recurrence, I've marked this as "solved". hopefully it is. The trick seemed to be the network reset, as neither Avast nor Malwarebytes caused a recurrence (though that doesn't, of...

Hi Ken, thanks for helping out.

There's no third party tools, registry enhancers or network optimizers running.

I've used both Avast and Malware Bytes for years without this problem occurring...

The system

OS: Windows 10 version 1909
PC: HP Envy Laptop
CPU: Intel Core i7 5500U @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz
GPU: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce 940M (HP)
Running the paid...