Post Aq6FAxcHSdvu6DSphQ by Andrew@mnstdn.monster
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(DIR) Post #Aq6Che3ustjx99Hg0m by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-15T07:22:11Z
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I have broken my windows in a unique way: I'm using a high-DPI display, but my menu size and some other metrics are set wrong.This happened for reasons. But since Windows 10 removed the Appearances control panel, you can't fix it. what if I use a ported Windows 8 appearances control panel? THAT'S HOW I BROKE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE
(DIR) Post #Aq6CkQ4vKekGe54uSe by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-15T07:22:40Z
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my current plan is "boot windows 10 on a VM and then export some windows metrics from the registry and then import those back onto the computer and hope that fixes it"
(DIR) Post #Aq6D62apKaTAB4JJE8 by SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange
2025-01-15T07:26:35Z
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@foone Can you use process explorer on another VM running 8 to see what files/reg keys it edits?
(DIR) Post #Aq6D9yci22xJ1Z4G2K by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-15T07:27:22Z
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oh sweet saint gates, I can read again
(DIR) Post #Aq6DHkZs8b59mLRnX6 by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-15T07:28:45Z
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it's HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics, btw
(DIR) Post #Aq6DSFqij0N7f7Kwfw by iacore@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-01-15T07:30:36Z
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@foone you brave thing
(DIR) Post #Aq6DZyA4N7rv7Y49CK by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-15T07:32:02Z
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this all happened because I crashed a windows 95 game and it turns out the game tweaks some of the windows appearance values while it's running. it puts them back when you quit. so if you crash, it fucks your windows theme. and in windows 10 you can't change your appearance anymore!
(DIR) Post #Aq6DdCTpakVqOkqklc by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-15T07:32:39Z
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so I downloaded a way to use the old apperances panel and it turns out they didn't update it for high-DPI displays so it sets everything to FUCKING TINY in a way you cannot fix without resetting your registry settings
(DIR) Post #Aq6FAxcHSdvu6DSphQ by Andrew@mnstdn.monster
2025-01-15T07:49:50Z
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@foone hahaha wow this entire sequence of events is pretty amazing
(DIR) Post #Aq6HOrnw4BW42Ifru4 by bornach@fosstodon.org
2025-01-15T08:14:46Z
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@foone Might need one of those screen magnifiers for such occasionshttps://www.robertnguyen.net/blog/2021/3/18/tiny-screens-and-giant-magnifying-glasses
(DIR) Post #Aq6KezkiaDEnBNYFlY by pointingdevice@social.restless.systems
2025-01-15T08:51:18Z
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@foone Cribbing settings from the default user registry hive (faster than creating a sacrificial user profile) might be another option next time. It's confusing because it's not the hive loaded under HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT (the user profile of the SYSTEM account), although that might have worked in this case as well.https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070302-00/?p=27783
(DIR) Post #Aq6OE7vOUU1GWfzMpc by CattoRayTube@aus.social
2025-01-15T09:31:13Z
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@foone ohh, I have memories of games crashing on 95 and 98 and at very least having to reboot to fix one of several potential bizarre display issues caused by exactly this.
(DIR) Post #Aq6Qd4yCoSXmVhKVqy by jernej__s@infosec.exchange
2025-01-15T09:58:12Z
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@foone Copy rundll32.exe from SysWOW64 to the same directory as deskn.cpl, then run it like this:set __COMPAT_LAYER=HIGHDPIAWAREstart "" "%~dp0rundll32.exe" shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "%~dp0deskn.cpl"This will let you set window metrics properly (I use it to tweak the titlebars and scrollbars in Win11, because I want both thinner).
(DIR) Post #Aq6a5b9XeOSq1GJ26y by thelobdegg@mastodon.social
2025-01-15T11:44:09Z
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@foone This happened to me once with the original preSteam release of Half Life. The old Day 1 release. From what I understood I got off lucky in that I was able to fix it without rebuilding my Windows install. Some of the crash results of 1.0 weren't so easy to recover from. Fun days, right? XD
(DIR) Post #Aq6mA28wRSpoKvuH1k by RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange
2025-01-15T13:59:26Z
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@foone I cant find HKEY_CURRENT_USER, is it under /etc/?:]
(DIR) Post #Aq6r8Ec1bvjoCUTJDM by MedeaVanamonde@chaosfem.tw
2025-01-15T14:54:38Z
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@foone Speak Registry Keys to me, Mama
(DIR) Post #Aq6rLa9cpV0ImBYJu4 by MedeaVanamonde@chaosfem.tw
2025-01-15T14:57:11Z
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@foone kinky
(DIR) Post #Aq8fqkXrR6YQqWu6Ay by knud@mastodon.social
2025-01-16T11:58:03Z
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@foone I stopped working around Microsoft issues ca. 1996. I am much happier since.