From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 2/3/2026 9:52 AM, Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   > Several times in the last few days, I have observed this behavior:   
   >   
   > I am reading a website using Microsoft Edge on my Windoes-11 desktop.   
   > Suddenly, my screen goes black for 5-10 seconds, and then re-appears   
   > looking very unfamiliar. A little poking around reveals that the   
   > desktop scale factor in the display setting has been changed from 125%   
   > to 300%. After I set it back (and rearrange the open windows back to   
   > where I want them), it is still working.   
   >   
   > Has anyone else seen that, and what might cause it?   
   >   
      
   Open the Settings wheel, in the search box enter "Relia"   
   to find the Reliability Monitor.   
      
   In the Reliability Monitor, there will probably be an   
   NVidia entry with a driver issue. Video drivers have   
   a watchdog, that checks that the interface is responsive   
   to incoming commands. The OS is likely trying to recover the driver.   
      
   I get these too, these little driver problems. Just not on all   
   the computers.   
      
   The NVidia driver is containerized, and in Ring0. RealTek has   
   also been forced to put their NIC driver into a container. Those   
   are the only two companies (so far), using containerized drivers.   
      
   The NVidia drivers, up to a certain driver release range, are   
   "standard drivers" that live in Ring0. For Windows 11, higher   
   release number drivers are "containerized drivers" that use   
   whatever protection Windows 11 offers for such.   
      
   The NVidia driver can pseudo-die repeatedly, with absolutely   
   no side effects on the screen at all. However, when it is   
   the driver that actually does run the screen, the screen turns   
   black during recovery, and with any luck, the same containerized   
   driver has been tipped upright and the resolution can remain the same.   
   If a *different* driver takes over... that's when these little   
   resolution screw-ups happen.   
      
      Paul   
      
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