E6410 upgraded to Win 10 and have 3 issues

I upgraded last weekend and just found a few issues, Google Earth when started throws up a warning that my screen resolution is set lower than 1024 x 768 and it will not function correctly, my resolution is actually set at the default 1440 x 900, any suggestions on a fix? I also notice that pop up window boxes seem to have blurry lettering, and if I right click on the desktop it takes about 15 sec. to get the pop up box to show, anyone seen this before?

 

The first two might arise if Windows have 125% or higher display scaling enabled resulting in (i) the effective resolution becomes 1152 x 720 (or lower) and (ii) text in anything that is not scaling-aware becomes blurry due to interpolation.

I can't explain the time delay. Make sure that the display scaling is on 100% and maybe this will be fixed.

John

 

Thanks, the scaling was on 125% so I could read small text with my glasses, I put it back to 100% and this fixed the Google Earth and blurry text in pop up boxes. Still have the slow right click response on desktop only, a right click on a web page gets instant response as before.

 

I would add that in Windows 10 you can disable display scaling on a per application basis in the compatibility properties of the application executable program. This allows you to have 125% overall but use 100% for programs that don't scale nicely.

I wonder whether the slow right click response is caused by something in the list of programs listed in the right click menu.

John

 

The slow right-click-on-desktop issue is likely caused by a shell extension misbehaving. Shell extensions are bits of third-party software that hook into the menu to do things like show extra context menu options. You might have noticed compression tools like WinRAR and 7-Zip add extra options to the menu, some texting tools like Notepad++ or UltraEdit can add menu options, maybe your graphics card driver adds a menu option when you right-click on the desktop.

ShellExView can list the installed shell extensions and enable/disable them. You can do some trial-and-error until you find the one causing the problem. You will have to restart Explorer after making any change, but the tool has the option to do that built in.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html