laptop weird bootup

dudebob2491

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Just today after i returned home from work, my laptop (DV7 3085DX) started acting strangely. Everything was fine on the morning when I left.

When it boots up, at first the screen is at my regular brightness, then just dims to the lowest. I cannot change this afterwards (fn key doesn't work, and I can't access screen brightness changer in control panel).

Also, I somehow now have windows classic theme instead of windows 7 aero. Again, everything is grayed out when I try to fix it using right click --> prissy personalize...

Many other things are also disabled, such as my volume and my Wi-Fi USB stick...

I tried booting in safe mode, and all the issues above still persists...

Does anyone know what's wrong? Is this some weird virus? Is something wrong with my hardware? Please help!!!

 

dudebob2491

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Jul 17, 2014
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Found a temporary solution for now... I went to MSCONFIG and changed it to Normal Startup. Most things work properly now!

This was very counterintuitive since I normally disable everything for the startup to work properly again.

I think maybe something important was disabled at startup, but I am not sure since I haven't played with these settings for a while...

Finally, the Aero theme still doesn't work (grayed out) and I'm stuck with Windows Classic. If anyone knows a solution, please let me know!