You can't fit an image of ~100 GB stored on your boot drive on a USB stick. I have ~125 GB stored on my boot drive and even after max compression, the Macrium image is ~60 GB, saved on my external USB HDD. And if there's ever a failure that prevents booting from the internal drive, you'd need the Macrium USB stick to boot PC so you can restore an image, even if you had to replace the internal drive. If heat is the issue here, the problem may not appear for a while after you boot the PC. But as components are heating up, they may start to fail... Run the PC until you clearly see the blurriness. (Pun intended!) Then reboot and tap F12 to open the menu. First, see if that menu looks blurry. Then select the diagnostics option from the menu and see if video passes/fails, based both on the actual tests it runs and whether those screens look blurry to you. The F12 menu and diagnostics are entirely independent of Windows, so it they're blurry and/or the video tests fail, it's probably a hardware issue...
Hello, I have an XPS 8900 with windows 10. After logging in today, all icons and text have shadows and appear blurry. Google search suggested opening “adjust the appearance and performance of windows” from the control panel and making sure the following are unchecked: 1) Show shadows under mouse pointer. 2) Show shadows under windows. 3) Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop I unchecked all 3 boxes and restarted, but there was no change to the appearance. I created a screenshot of my PC’s performance options, but don’t see an option for attaching it to my post. Please let me know if you’d like to see the screenshot. Any suggestions you have to resolve the problem would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
XPS 8900, shadows and blurry icons