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[Amperzand]

Well, it seems to have worked. The thing woke back up in some kind of simplified testing mode, ran some tests, and started trying to wake up normally, I'll have to see if it works from here.

[Thief^]

Pretty much all complex electronics implement a "hard off" if the power button is held for 10 seconds (which always feels like a lot longer than it sounds). Particularly useful to know for phones, tablets and ultra-thin laptops without a removable battery. I'm surprised you said it didn't work.

At least modern electronics are highly resistant to the kinds of damage you used to get from an unclean shutdown, so after the self-test there should be no lasting effects.

[Amperzand]

Yeah, everything seems to be fine. As far as I can tell, all input was in the process of locking up, it stopped responding to anything a bit later. I would also have expected the power button to be a hard-shutdown if held long enough, but I held it down for at least thirty seconds and there was no response.

[BigD145]

Looks like it's only on text? Does Firefox have an option to enable/disable hardware accelerated text rendering (DirectWrite)? If so, changing that could work around the issue.

My laptop does the fragmented text as well. 960M graphics. Damnit NVIDIA. This is an old problem.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1106499

This fix might not be working.

[Insanegame27]

So my laptop began getting hot the other day. so I looked in my processor power management and found that for whatever reason they had been set so that the minimum processor state had been set to 100% and the maximum had been set to 75%. I lowered it a bit and the problem of heat persists. The percentages do get reset to what I found them at occasionally. I am aiming to lower the heat.

[BigD145]

Dust that sucker out. If it's an old laptop then fans may need to be replaced, which is not an easy task.

[Sensei]

The fans probably don't need to replace unless they've stopped. I have however seen a few laptops where the thermal pad has dried up and gone to rubbish. That's the stuff that goes in between the CPU and the cooler, if you're technically inclined you can clean it off and replace it with proper thermal paste which will last far longer. Dusting it would be the first and easiest step though, if it's very dusty then that's probably the main problem.

[Lord Shonus]

Either due to an update or because I had to disable it while modding Morrowind, the UAC in Windows 10 is popping up nearly every time I run a program. Disabling it completely prevents Store apps from working, and I use a few of them (Audible, Pandora (which I prefer to the website version), and Calculator). Is there a way to suppress this behavior, or to disable UAC without killing apps?

[TheBiggerFish]

Calculator's a Windows Store app?  Why...

[Lord Shonus]

It's a free app, at least.

[Flying Dice]

Unlike Minesweeper and Solitaire.

[TD1]

Really annoying problem with laptop. The battery won't charge - just says (plugged in, not charging). I removed the battery and replaced it, problem fixed until it hit mid 90% charge. Then it stopped working again. Removing and reinserting battery worked the same once more up to mid 90%, but after that it didn't work. I've reinstalled the drivers. If I remove the battery but keep the charger in, the laptop still receives charge.

This happened really suddenly, within the space of a day. I hesitate to buy a new battery because I assume battery degradation wouldn't happen so quickly.

[Aklyon]

Have you checked the charger?

[TD1]

I've checked it physically, if that's what you mean? There are no kinks in the wire, and all bits are connected as should be.

[wierd]

How old is this battery, and how often do you run the battery past 50% depletion?