W10WMC Fullscreen is blacked out

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W10WMC Fullscreen is blacked out

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Post by jachin99 » Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:36 am

I had this problem on my last iteration of my WMC10 attempts using build 1803. This time I am on Enterprise Eval 1507 LTSB via VMWare. When I attempt to run WMC fullscreen it presents me with a black window but I can still hear the beep from navigating through the start menu on my keyboard. Pressing alt-tab, and brining some other window up over WMC shows the screen but WMC loses keyboard focus. Are there any known fixes for this? Thanks.

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Post by jachin99 » Tue Sep 11, 2018 12:26 pm

Disabling display optimizations seemed to do the trick on the 1803 machine so I'm guessing If I could do the same thing on the VM my problems would be solved.

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Post by jachin99 » Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:41 pm

The problem I am running into on this VM (Which is now 1609 LTSB) is that where it says, "Disable Fullscreen Optimizations" or something to that effect on build 1803 (non VM) it says "disable display scaling on high DPI settings (On my VM build 1609). I'm not sure if this Is due to VMWare tools being installed on the host or if it has something to do with 2 different builds but if anyone out there has squashed this in the past, please let me know. Thanks.

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