[SOLVED] Computer acting strange since sudden entry into test mode

[heyitsron123]

So my computer had suddenly entered test mode days ago without my knowledge and i've just exited test mode using the cmd prompt, but this problem still persists.

When using IE10, the browse history drop-down menu doesn't show even though i can scroll through them using the directional keys, the type box turns black in certain instances, and the right half of the entire browser is whited out when i select the typebox.
- The side scroll bar has disappeared and shows a black vertical strip from the bottom half, and certain pages with embedded flash player scripts act strange, like some stray words right in the centre of the page where it doesn't belong, slightly translucent and greatly expanded.
-the pop-up text boxes when hovering cursor over the "previous page" or "close tab" buttons turn up completely black. In the former's case, the black box extends for the entire length of the bottom half of the section the button is in.
- captcha images don't show wholly

I've never seen this before and have no idea what's causing it. Can anyone help?

 

[Colif]

Welcome to Toms

Can you show us some screenshots?
upload them to an image sharing website like imgur and show links here.

I don't use IE10 but I see what I can find once I know what you see.

what do you mean by test mode? safe mode?

what are details of the PC?

 

[heyitsron123]

Thanks Colif. Is there a way to directly embed screenshots in my reply? Much easier than opening an image hosting account.

I didn't know there was a test mode either until i saw the watermark at the bottom right corner of the desktop. It's not safe mode for sure since no functions were limited.

I'm not sure i understand correctly, but the computer's running on an i7 processor, using windows 10 home, and is only 3 years old. I do remember hearing some strange friction sounds when the computer was importing a large audio file on audacity before this started happening too. Perhaps it really was that and not the test mode that is causing these problems.

 

[heyitsron123]

The play and full screen button in youtube videos also doesn't show unless i hover the cursor over it....

 

[Colif]

I didn't know there was a test mode either until i saw the watermark at the bottom right corner of the desktop. It's not safe mode for sure since no functions were limited.

I think know what happened, you got logged into a guest account perhaps? this can happen if your current user profile is partially broken, I had it happen to me a while ago, and the easy answer is... make a new user

Have a look here - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au...-create-a-local-user-or-administrator-account
Create a local user
While in normal user, go to c:/user/oldusername and copy the contents of this folder onto the C:/users/Newusername folder,
This gives new user as much access as old one and means you don't have to reinstall anything

Make new user an Admin account so it can access same folders as other user.

Login to new user and see if it fixed the problem?

If it did, just use new user and keep old one for any emergencies (always handy having a spare user, even if its partially borked).

 

[heyitsron123]

Thanks! That did the trick. Do you know what causes this? It's like it just happened for no reason!

 

[Colif]

I don't actually know, it isn't a common thing but user profiles can just break in windows 10. As I said, it happened to me a few years ago, its how I knew how to fix it

 

[heyitsron123]

glad to have had your advice! Thanks again

 

[Colif]

I have only had it happen once but it creates doubt in mind, will it happen again. So I would make sure you have any info you can't afford to lose backed up either on a cloud server or another drive, as although it is fairly rare, it could happen again. Better to be safe than sorry. Next time might not let you create a new user.

I have reinstalled win 10 since it happened, you probably don't need to do that as win 10 gets a new version every 6 months and it is essentially a clean install each time. This likely fixes any oddities.