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I just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8. Some of the icons for the tiles on my Windows 8 are blurry. It's nothing major, but they're not as crisp or high resolution as I remember. Here's a picture:[URL]....
You can see that with Mail, Skydrive, Camera, Maps, Music, and Store, the icons are all a little bit fuzzy and not as high resolution as they should be. Is this intended or not? I know it's minor but it really bothers me.
When I go to desktop it looks good. I tried to reinstall the graphicdriver but it did not work.
Here is what I have:
Windows 8 Pro
Nvidia Geforce 680
16 gb ram
Intel i7
Benq monitor
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These shortcuts don't link to anything, but because their names give an indication of my personal interests, I would prefer to have them removed. I could reformat the drive, but I assume HP would like to get the machine back complete with all files that they originally supplied with it. I really don't want to do a restore and start over clearing my info.
I just got a new laptop with Windows 8 and upgraded to Windows 8.1.
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Windows 8 does not offer this setting, but there is an app: [url].....
However, everytime I reboot, my carefully sorted list icons are re-organized into one column on the left.
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This is the second time of windows 8 being put on my machine and there is so much not happening that should it makes a mockery of buying the software!
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There isn't much more to say other than:
-"AutoArrange Icons" is disabled.
-I tried to download some .ini fixes for similar problem but they fails.
-I tried programs to manually restore icons position manually with a previous save. useless.
-i have no viruses and no strange programs installed.
-At the time i started having the problem i only had: StartIsBack 1.5.2, chrome and Visual Studio.
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I have Start8 and Windows 7 widget support installed if this makes a difference. (I don't want to remove or diable them)
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I am not updating any drivers or doing anything out of the ordinary. Its just at some startups all of my icons are either moved all the way to the right on the right monitor, or they are just simply reset back in order on right monitors (main desktop).
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May I know how can I restore the vertical icons on the right side of the screen.
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Windows 8.1 on a Samsung laptop, still waiting for my recovery disk...
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