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Weird display & screen freezing (but not in Safe Mode)
While working, my Win7 desktop suddenly displayed multiple desktops (about 6 of them in 2 columns) and a message to "check with your hardware vendor"... the only way to do anything was to shut down with the power button, which I did.
I then booted into Safe Mode and checked for driver updates, and updated the video card. When I booted back to regular mode, the screen displayed normally, and worked well for a while, but then froze and was completely unresponsive. It is now freezing almost immediately after booting. (But I haven't seen multiple desktops displayed again in regular mode since updating the driver. And Safe Mode still works fine.)
(Since I am wrapping up tax stuff, I thought I would just work in Safe Mode and deal with this later, but I don't see a button to Sleep or Hibernate in Safe Mode, and I don't want to keep shutting the laptop down completely when I'm away from it for a while.)
I will truly appreciate any direction on this problem! Thank you very much.