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10-12The Black Curtain Case: A Rescue Without a Reboot
The main screen kept only its taskbar, everything else black. The diagnosis defied everyone: not a dead GPU, not merely a DWM crash — an NVIDIA GeForce Overlay window painted opaque black across the entire screen after the compositor died, sitting exactly one layer below the taskbar. Hide it, and Chrome revives instantly. Why Win+Ctrl+Shift+B failed is explained here.
Read more › 10-12The C: Drive Expedition: Surveying 452 Gigabytes and a False Alarm
A 465 GB C: drive had only 14 GB left. Layer-by-layer robocopy measurement punctured two illusions: the Users directory showing 812 GB of logical size beyond the disk total, and Google Play Games virtual disk image marked 512 GB — the truth is a sparse file occupying just 4 GB. The encoding pitfall (PowerShell reading UTF-8-without-BOM scripts as ANSI) was filled too. NetEase Cloud Music cleared its 10 GB cache; space returned to 26 GB.
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