Windows "explodes" all my windows when the screen goes to standby (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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At work I got Windows 11 24H2. It has a bug, known from september 2024, that resizes all the windows in a tiny corner.

Basically, when the screen shuts off for standby, Windows thinks the resolution now is no more 3840x2160 but 640x480. EVERYTHING gets resized in the top left corner at 640x480 and it's ULTRA INFURIATING

Because microsoft took 3 years to fix the taskbar and 4 years to fix the "restore explorer windows at boot" checkbox, I'm not confident that they will fix this issue in this decade, and I must find a solution, or i will become crazy.

Workarounds tried:

using fancywm - every time i wake up screen i need to wait 10 seconds to see all the windows rearranging and resizing and it's still infuriating.
disabling monitor timeout and replacing it with a screensaver - I'm at work and group policy mandate monitor timeout at 5 minutes
updating the AMD drivers
uninstalling 24H2 - the admin removed the uninstall files, i can't revert to previous version *uninstalling powertoys in the chance if it was caused by fancyzones
changing UI scale from 150% to 100%

What I did not try:

replace the displayport cable with a hdmi one (but it should have only 30hz refresh rate in that case)
use a dummy video adapter
use a lower resolution
wipe and reinstall everything, i have too many stuff with too many settings

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[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I think you're mostly dealing with the consequences of DisplayPort monitors being considered disconnected entirely when off. I tried a display dummy adapter once, and it wouldn't go above 1080p, plus it didn't completely solve the issue.

It's really not an easy problem to solve. Using only HDMI all the time technically works, but very few computers offer more than 1 HDMI port.

A few ideas:

Have you tried checking or unchecking the checkbox "Remember window locations based on monitor connections"?
maybe this is the result of Windows putting all your windows on a screen with weird settings when the main one is off. Is this a laptop whose main screen you're not using for example? Is there anything else that could be considered a "monitor" on this machine? (Including any sort of software-based thing that would connect virtual monitors)? Maybe there IS something at a weird display resolution or scaling but it's hard to notice what.
Disconnect the monitor manually and reconnect it. Is the issue the same? If not, the monitor itself may be doing weird things when the system tells it to go to standby.

Edit: Ugh didn't notice the below wasn't an option at first

~~There's a relatively easy workaround to SOME of it: disable the screen turning off after X minutes of inactivity, and replace that with a screensaver that's a black screen.~~

~~The screen will always be "on" , even though it won't be displaying anything, which will prevent your windows from being messed with when your PC times out due to inactivity.~~

~~But if your PC goes to sleep or you turn a monitor off, it won't help you.~~

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I took out the DP cable from the monitor and that bug didn't come out. It has to be some correlation of the GPU that goes to sleep

but, with any version of windows released before windows 11 24h2, this problem is not present

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