HeyCrest

This is the best advice. If your friend isn't listening to you, let him see for himself how the exact performance is, at no cost.

UPDATE: Doing the steps above game me some updates, but I am still on 22H2 and 23H2 is not available for me. The bug/problem still exists. Any inputs will be appreciated.

I'm not sure if the paste expires. But yeah, you definitely need to clean and also pay attention to the cooling systems. Could it be possible that Steam is just a coincidence and it just so happened that Steam games you tested happened to also be the games that are performance-demanding and the non-Steam games were not so much? I am not sure.

Did you get the chance to measure your CPU temps during the game and especially during the green screen problem? Regardless, I think the most direct primary solution right now would be all the hardware related things - cleaning your PC, checking your cooling solution especially fans, and replace thermal paste. At least do the first two things and see if things go back to normal if you can't change the paste right away but I still recommend changing it some time soon.

Thank you for your response. As soon as you made your first comment I started googling and I found out that I need to go to Windows Updates and enable the toggle for Get the latest updates as soon as they're available. I will do this after a couple of hours when I go home and see if it gives me the 23H2 update. It is highly likely that it will fix my issue, thanks.

Oh? I checked for Windows updates right before making this post and it says I'm up-to-date. Is there any reason I am not getting 23H2 or any way to force it?

Hi there, I have a problem that I'm pretty sure can be blamed onto Windows 11 since it has appeared ever since I updated from Windows 10, and has been a persistent problem for months now. If I open any fullscreen app (usually a game), many times it will open (screen goes black) and then it will be minimized and I'm on my desktop again. The app is running, and no matter how much I try to go back to the app it keeps bringing me to my desktop. Sometimes the app opens correctly in full screen, but then if I alt-tab out of it and try to go back into it, it repeats the same thing, minimizes it and forces me on desktop. Usually when this happens, I have to close/crash the app and start it again, hoping the bug won't happen on launch. Sometimes I have to restart the whole computer to fix it. This has been a problem for many months, and I am running the latest public build - 22H2 OS Build 22621.2861. No updates have fixed it. The only way to get around it is to use the application in windowed fullscreen mode. But that is not a good solution because many games perform much better when fullscreen.

Interesting. Unfortunately, I do not have any clue as my issue was related to Teams. I recommend starting your own thread, that way its shown to all the community members and someone may be able to help you out. Good luck.

Thank you! I did try searching on my own before posting here but didn't come across anything. I have installed Teams on its default settings including location so I'm not sure why its behaving this way. I only need it for 1 week anyways, after that I will uninstall it. Thank you so much. I have marked your response as a solution.

I will try that. Although it appears every 8-10 hours, so it may not reappear immediately. I will update you tomorrow.

Personal computer owned by me. The Teams credentials are also my personal outlook account, not a work login.

Only Microsoft Teams. ~24 hours before this file started appearing. But I have had Teams before too and it never happened back then.

Hi, Recently I noticed a file called settings.json on my desktop. 0 bytes and blank. I'm not sure how it got there/what program created it. I deleted it. About 8 hours later, it reappeared. I deleted it again. And it keeps re-appearing. I can't figure out what program is creating this file, or its origins. How can I find it out?

Yes. You're right about the resolution. Attached images- 1) Chrome at default settings. 2) Firefox at default settings. 3) Firefox at 133% zoom (my bad I thought it was 140% instead). Notice how when zooming in, only some elements are scaled. The YouTube logo in the top left corner remains the same small size while the IN right next to it is scaled bigger. On Chrome, the logo is standard sized at default and gets bigger if I zoom in. Image 1) https://imgur.com/a/pKdD6KZ Image 2) https://imgur.com/a/3CZb1vs Image 3) https://imgur.com/a/E4W7pS0 Posted on imgur because I tried posting screenshots via media uploader here but it changed their sequence.

EDIT: PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE POST BEFORE COMMENTING BECAUSE I THINK SOMEONE WILL COMMENT "JUST ZOOM IN" Preface: I want to switch from Chrome to Firefox as my default browser. But Firefox is abnormally zoomed out on my computer. I have Chrome font size set to default and zoom level set to 100% default for all pages. Firefox being a fresh installation, also has font size set to default and zoom level set to 100% for all pages. Upon googling, I discovered the default font size for both browsers is 16. So they're at identical default settings. The problem: Every website on Firefox seems zoomed out and text looks too tightly close to each other. I tried it with YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, Reddit, Gmail, etc. many popular websites. Almost all are abnormally zoomed out with font size too small and text too close to each other. On Chrome, everything is perfectly normal sized and normally aligned. Solutions I have tried so far: 1. Manually changing the default zoom size in Firefox. I noticed Firefox's 140% zoom equals around Chrome's 100% zoom. But the problem with that is, it changes the layouts of the websites causing them to look different than how they're intended to. I also tried manually increasing font size, that caused the text to be bigger but still too close and it looks even weirder. I tried both zoom and bigger text at the same time and again the website layouts get messed up. So zooming in and/or increasing font size is not fixing it for me. 2. Reinstalling Firefox completely. I even deleted the %appdata% Firefox folder because everytime it would import bookmarks and old settings. But even on a completely fresh installation, this issue persists. 3. Made sure my default Windows zoom is 100%. Although if that was the culprit then Chrome should have misbehaved too. And finally, I wouldn't be posting here if I wasn't confident that the issue is specific to my PC. I had a friend install fresh copy of Firefox on his PC (he has a monitor of the same size and resolution), and we made sure our settings are identical. In his case, both Firefox and Chrome look the same at their default values. While in my case, Firefox is messed up and Chrome looks identical to his Chrome and Firefox. I don't know how to solve this issue but I would really like to switch to Firefox so want to fix it.