Resolution of screen of Windows 7 laptop computer rose after updates. Cannot read the menus.

My laptop has a new installation of Windows 7 SP1 Pro who had before correct screen resolution updates have been installed. Today, I managed to install all updates after fighting with a lot of problems with outdated update Agents. Now, the resolution of the screen has increased so that text and on the desktop, the menus are invisible. Among the updates could be for the video driver. Now, I can't use the settings menu or control panel to change the resolution, because the menus show only as tiny arrows. Even the Start Menu does not appear. The command prompt window is normal text, so I can use it for the closing session and stop.

Is there a curse from command line to get the desktop settings? I tried the "Windows"I"suggestion for another post, but it does not bring up the settings menu. And "Control +" does nothing on the desktop.

Thank you.

MS has probably included a video driver in the list of the optional updates for your system of brand not specified and the model.

You should look at those carefully and decline/hide video driver updates.

Generally, it is not wise to accept updates of hardware driver (audio, video, network), available from MS, and many are the woes of people who (and then have your question).

If you see offered, it is best to diminish and hide so that you do not see them yet.

Here you can see where certain nVidia and Western Digital updates have been hidden:

If after completing your 208 updates of the video is messed up again, you should be able to just push this update of the video driver from Device Manager instead of having to run the system restore:

It might help to check the Device Manager when the system works well to see and note that the graphics card version, this is before making updates so that you know what he looks like when he's not working properly.  Then you will know what is the "right" driver version  After the updates (and before rebooting), you can check the driver again and roll back before restarting.

If you can get only / still at the command prompt (or the run menu), you can open the device like this Manager:

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