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    latest issues with windows 8.1 for me

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by lahi88, Jan 1, 2014.

  1. lahi88

    lahi88 Notebook Guru

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    Sometimes my charm bars arnt working at all . So i cannot shut down my computer as well. so have to do it manually. in that time windows icon in the desktop wont work as well but all the other functions work well. And when i press windows key on the keyboard start menu icons is bigger than usual therefore some of the icons i cant see.those are extended from the screen. And the distance between desktop icons also get increased when this happen. i dont know the reason for that.

    please help me
     
  2. Mitlov

    Mitlov Shiny

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    No idea why your charms bar isn't working, but you can shut down the machine by right-clicking the start button on the taskbar and selecting "shut down or sign out."

    No idea on your other issues. Never seen anything like that.
     
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  3. lahi88

    lahi88 Notebook Guru

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    desktop normal.jpg desktop sucks.jpg screen.jpg starts screen normal.jpg

    Ok sorry for delay reply. Please check those above pictures.

    you can see that starts screen items has been maximized so i cant see all the items. And desktop , the gap between items has been increased and when this happen i cannot see the folder "the big bang theory" and other pdf file.

    I took this much long to reply because for about 5 days i didnt see this phenomena. Suddenly i change my theme into a different one and the same old thing happened.
     
  4. summer69_ne

    summer69_ne Newbie

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    Hello there
    I can see the space between the icons, and that the taskbar "background" is higher than the taskbar icons, that's strange.
    This problems only occur when you change themes?
    It looks like your not using your screen's native resolution... but I never seen windows act like this.
     
  5. ellalan

    ellalan Notebook Deity

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    Try reinstalling the graphics driver.