Windows 10 — Why is everything so bright?

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Method 1:

You may try changing the resolution of the Monitor and then check for the issue.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Select System .
3. Click on Display and move the slider to change the Resolution.

You can refer to the link below and use it as a guide. (Also applicable for Windows 10)

Method 2:

You may update the Display driver from Device Manager manually and check if this helps.

1. Click on start icon and click on “ Device Manager ”.

2. Expand “ Display Adaptor ”.

3. Right click on the video driver and select “ Update Driver Software ”. Once this is done, restart the computer and check if the issue persists.

Method 3:

Further, if there no updated drivers available on the computer manufacturer’s website, then trying installing it in compatibility mode. Compatibility mode runs the program using settings from a previous version of Windows.

Follow these steps to install the drivers in compatibility mode and check if that helps.

a. Download the driver from the manufacturer’s website.

b. Right-click on the driver setup file and click on ‘properties’ .

c. Click on the ‘compatibility’ tab and check the box ‘Run this program in compatibility mode for’ and select Windows 8 operating system from the drop down menu and proceed with the installation. Once this is done, restart the computer and check if the issue persists.

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I don’t see how any of these suggestions apply to the question I asked. Anyone else want to give this a shot?

Also why does the email notifying me of the reply make it really easy to mark the reply as the answer or mark it as helpful, but not so easy to just view the reply, or mark it as not helpful? I accidentally marked the reply as the answer to the question by clicking a link in an email, and then had to login twice to unmark it as being the answer.

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It appears to me to have nothing to do with your question perhaps a bot is answering you, yes, I agree everything is too bright white and I would like coloured window tabs too, it is just plain and bright. Perhaps I have not mastered finding a way to put some colour on these tanbs or I just need to go get Google foe my browser, I am trying this Edge tho.. but I already forgot my password and cannot get into my brand new Microsoft password as I cannot see any optoion for forgot password.. I did give them my phone number and so I thought it would be easy. But no. Also when you report a problem one of the drop down choices is someone hijacked my window, that means it is so common it is an option, that makes me wary, or it means they no most people have no idea what that really even entails and why. Alas I agree Vanessa, your question was not answered you did not say your graphics are bad or not behaving you said Windows 10 is too bright!

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Windows is a very popular operating system. Why is it so popular? What other operating systems exist besides W?

Windows is a very popular operating system. Why is it so popular? What other operating systems exist besides Windows?

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Windows was made to be able to run on almost all computer hardware available. Great marketing and low prices have made it the number one operating system in the world. Apple’s Macintosh Operating systems such as Snow Leopard are probably the second most common, but not as widely used as they have cost more than windows machines for some time. Open Source and Free operating systems are also available, usually using a linux kernel. Ubuntu is probably the most popular free operating system.

Windows, is the most widely used so software and hardware developers generally focus on driver and software support for windows systems.

The other two most popular operating systems are Mac OS and Linux. Of course there are many others but most people use Windows and Mac. Many IT professionals use Linux because its extremely versatile. The short answer for why people use Windows is that its accessible, well known, intuitive,(for the most part) and most developers produce for Windows and many even make their software exclusive to Windows.

In striking that part of the laptop, you may have accidentally destroyed the hard disk. Those things are very delicate. I think that it *is* possible to recover data from hard drives that have suffered physical destruction, but I have only ever heard of it once: the guy in Connecticut who shot up all those kids in that school had apparently taken a hammer to his computer’s hard disk before he set off, and the cops/FBI are supposedly using this technology to piece the data on the drive back together. I really don’t know if that can happen for you though. Since you have an install disc, you can fix the computer if you can buy a new hard drive of the same specification (likely 2.5 inch SATA). But everything will be new and clean, there really is no practical way of getting all that stuff back. Startup repair won’t help you if the disk itself is destroyed, even if you let it run for a decade.

Don’t think it is as «popular» as you think. Most of us are just stuck with it since it has a lion’s share of the apps out there. Gates was very good at cornering the market, a little too good, and that is why the US gov started looking into Windows having a monopoly on the OS market. This is most likely the major reason Gates sunk a ton of his own cash into Apple so that they didn’t go under. If that would have happened the US gov would really go after him.

10 Reasons Why Windows 10 Is Best OS Of All Time

Windows Comes Of Age

Most of us know the 33 year history of Microsoft Windows by now and with one or two forced errors down the years, in my opinion the launch of Windows 10 in 2015 became a defining moment for the world’s favourite computer operating system.

“A computer on every desk and in every home.”
– Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer, 1980

And it’s no coincidence that Windows 10 followed hot on the heels of Satya Nadella’s appointment as Microsoft CEO in 2014, himself being an experienced technician, in stark contrast to Steve Ballmer’s brash salesman approach.The ever so unpopular Metro tiled interface was given a welcome makeover among many other improvements, and as DCT writer Jim Hillier pointed out in his July 2015 article, 3 Burning Questions Microsoft Needs to Clarify about Windows 10, Windows 10 became a service. Since that time Windows 7 has remained stoically popular, as has Windows 8 for reasons that I still cannot fathom.

I like stats, but quite how they are measured is a mystery to me, particularly when Statcounter’s figures couldn’t be more different than those published by TechRepublic in this article:

• Windows 10 market share hit 33.21% in March 2018, down from 34.6% in February 2018, a drop of 1.39%. — NetMarketShare, 2018
• In March 2018, Windows 7 gained 1.74% market share from the month before, rising from 41.69% to 43.43%. — NetMarketShare, 2018

But if you cast those stats aside and take them with a pinch of salt, it’s clear to see that Windows 10 is very much here to stay and in terms of usability, knocks mac OS and Linux completely out of the park.

1 – Installation

If you were lucky enough to take advantage of Microsoft’s special offer to upgrade free of charge to Windows 10 for a whole year until July 2016 and also through the Assistive Technologies loophole until December 2017, then you probably found your installation or upgrade to be a relatively simple process, just as I have done. With its ‘lite’ system requirements of a 1Ghz CPU and 1GB RAM (2GB for x64), the scope for upgrading was enormous and indeed I’ve installed Windows 10 on some fairly lowly machines including single core Athlons with 1GB of RAM. Most PCs today have USB ports with the ability to boot from a pen-drive and by using the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft, the entire process couldn’t be simpler. In fact, it can be used to either upgrade the current machine or to prepare the pen-drive for a clean install elsewhere. Combine this with a fast CPU, plenty of RAM and an SSD (Solid State Drive) and you’re looking at a Windows 10 installation that shouldn’t take longer than about 20 minutes from boot to shiny new desktop.

2 – Driver Support

There are always driver exceptions of course, mainly with laptops, but in my experience of installing Windows 10, 99% of the time all the necessary drivers are installed during installation, including such devices as WiFi and network adapters, up to and including GPUs. The pain of needing to hunt around for those elusive drivers has not been completely eradicated, but Windows 10 gets you up and running faster than any OS I’ve come across to date.

3 – From Power Button To Desktop In Seconds

Again, depending on your PC configuration, the time it takes to get from pressing that power button to a working desktop is drastically reduced with Windows 10 and in most cases can be measured in seconds. In fact, on my aging Phenom II x4 965 work machine, which I use for technical day to day use, I can be at a working desktop in less than 45 seconds from pressing the power switch. This is helped greatly by having an SSD, a quad-core CPU, 16GB of RAM and a clutter free start-up configuration.

4 – Software Customisation

It’s utterly pointless to compare Windows to MacOS/OS X or Linux in any way whatsoever, but for me, the outstanding aspect of Windows 10 that literally trounces the opposition is its multifarious flexibility. It can be personalised in so many ways without the need for third-party add-ons and with the debacle of Windows 8 now safely behind us– the restoration of the Start Menu to some semblance of its old self, for example– customising Windows 10 can be achieved in so many different ways. Put the Task Bar on any of the four edges of your screen, go dark with your theme, customise the Start Menu (ex Start Screen) with as many or as few tiles as you wish, change the language, colours, theme and many more user options of Windows.

5 – Third-Party Software Customisation

Clearly this is an area where the Windows ecosystem leads the way in a very similar fashion to the Android OS, with both being open to practically infinite customisation through both paid and free Apps. If there’s an aspect of Windows 10 that cannot be tweaked by a registry hack or Windows Settings, you can be sure that some clever soul has written some code for you to download. Prime examples of this are Classic Shell and Start 10, which restore the Start Menu to resemble Windows 7 or earlier. In fact, I shelled out a few dollars for Start 10 because I’m an inveterate tweaker and my Start configuration looks a little tidier than simply removing all the tiles from Start. There are a myriad of customisations you can install including all-in-one tweakers such as Ultimate Windows Tweaker, theme changers such as Stardock’s Windows Blinds, Object Dock, Fences and Nexus Dock among thousands of others which I covered in an article last year which you can read here: How I Customised My Desktop With Docks And Gadgets

6 – Hardware Customisation

Unless you’re changing your motherboard and CPU, Windows 10 is very accommodating. Adding an SSD, changing your GPU and peripherals such as keyboard and mouse can be done with ease due to the OS’s innate flexibility. In fact, on both of my gaming machines I’ve swapped out GPUs, SSDs, keyboards and mice numerous times since I first installed Windows 10 with no problems whatsoever.

7 – Reinstall Windows 10 Multiple Times On The Same PC

In our house there are a total of seven PCs running Windows 10, with five running the OS from an SSD, and since the Windows license is now tied to your hardware configuration– principally the motherboard and CPU– you’re free to reinstall the system on that same PC as many times as you wish without the need to enter product keys or manually activate Windows. Activation is automatic, happens once you connect to the Net and takes place quietly and unobtrusively in the background. For technicians like me who reinstall Windows frequently on customers’ PCs, this is a major benefit since most people don’t keep a record of product keys and simply want their machine to work the way it should.

8 – A Gamer’s Paradise

Without doubt, Windows is the premier platform of choice for gamers and has been since the years of DOS. Whilst other OSs struggle to bring the gaming experience to users with programs such as WINE on Linux or Wineskin and Boot Camp on Mac, I found the entire experience to be more trouble than it’s worth– although I’m happy to give it another stab. On the other hand, Windows 10 will let you play practically every game that’s ever been written, either through Compatibility Mode or by using the remarkable DOSBox, an x86 emulator which will have you running your favourite games from previous decades in no time at all. I’ve been gaming on PCs since Windows 3.1 and from time to time can still play those older games in Windows 10 through DOSBox or setting Windows in compatibility mode, which is a mark of the OSs true capability as a gaming platform. Today’s games, of course, are very hardware demanding and whilst GPU drivers are arguably the most important component in any gaming experience, you’ll find them updated by AMD and Nvidia frequently for Windows 10 and Linux, but for Mac it’s an entirely different proposition. In short, games on Windows 10 simply work out of the box and are brought to life in wondrous ways. Add to that Windows 10’s Gaming Mode and Game DVR and it’s easy to see that Microsoft has finally begun to take gaming very seriously.

9 – Preview BETA Versions Of Windows 10

On my technical gaming PC I’m subscribed to Windows Insider which allows me to test pre-production features of the OS before official updates are more widely released to the public. In fact, I’m currently running Windows 10 version 1803, build 17666 and taking advantage of some cool new features such as Explorer Dark Mode.

10 – They Didn’t Call It Windows 9

I may need to see a shrink for nominating this, the tenth reason why Windows 10 is the best operating system of all time. After all, why should the number nine be discriminated against? I’ll tell you why– because it comes hot on the heels of eight, which as we all know was designated to that mish-mash, ill-thought-out abortion, previously known as Windows 8. It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that Microsoft wished to distance itself from that particular fiasco and why they skipped a number by settling on Windows 10, thus redeeming themselves and in the process moving the OS to the sunlit uplands of a nice, tidy round number that’s now recognised as the best, most complete desktop operating system of all time.