Aaaarrrghh! (computer issues)

Right click the desktop and select Nvidia control panel from the popup menu...



You should get something like this...



Then click the "my display is not shown..." linky under the list of available displays. Does that do anything?

I only have the 3D settings in that whole list to the left...

In that case perhaps everything is going through your Intel graphics instead

I think I'm going to turn the whole thing off, go and bang my head against the wall for a while and then return to see if things magically restored themselves without my help...

It's a plan.

well it didn't work.
Intel has a similar setup btw, (same place as Nvidia) but it can't detect the monitor....

(on the other hand file explorer is back to pretending it's open...)

Well, it definitely sounds like you have some issues on-going. I know how frustrating computers can be when they act up. Hope you get it sorted soon.

As much as you don't want to, resetting to an earlier time as Banj suggested may be your only choice? (Thought, it still might not solve the monitor recognition issue? But hopefully does.) I've had to reset many times before in the past, and it usually reminded me to look into using something for this purpose, since in some cases the last save-point was days or even weeks before. So I've been using Time Machine with mine. I've heard it's not the best out there for this, especially if you have documents you just can't lose no matter what, but most say it's sufficient for most and works well for most users overall. I like that it's set to auto-save each hour, and I believe you can even set it for shorter times?

well I used the restore point from aug. 18th and still no monitor... grrr... And now I have to reinstall bluestacks if I want to get that to work. Though I'm considering not. I can always replay tribez on FB I guess... Still, it sucks that I have reached all islands and paid plenty of real money to get there, and I'd have to restart from scratch... Guess I'll have to see how much I miss it :p

and just now I tried hooking the monitor up to my old desktop and it came on just fine... *sigh*

....aaaaaaaaaaand sent a second request for help to my bro. He's supposed to be a computer expert after all :p (but he totally ignored my first request, so... )