What is an HP update on my computer?

Question

I have a windows vista computer and it recently prompted me that there was available HP updates... So I proceeded with the update process..... HOWEVER - now my computer looks different... all of the fonts are huge and my desktop background photo is also way big. Everything seems so stretched out and big, what the heck happened?? I tried doing a system restore to get rid of those updates - cause when I did them is when all the changes happened- but nothing changed.

Please help me to restore my original settings... if you can explain in detail, Im not a computer wiz.. :) Thank you!!!

Answer 1

Well, if it is an HP update, that means your computer is a Hewlett Packard and it has an update straight from HP themselves. This may be a hardware update or some sort of software update. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to compeltely remove an update. What you will have to do is right click on desktop and select properties, then change the resolution size. Play with that and see if it helps.

Answer 2

The last answer is dead wrong.  HP Update forces itself on with any HP software, including their printers, scanners, harddrives, DVD drives (for 'lightscribe), etc.  

Right click teh desktop and go to "personalize"

Windows Colors and Appearnce.

Set the scheme to something else, and hit apply.  If that doesn't work play around in advance.d

Answer 3

sounds like it updated your video driver which is normally not something I would suggest since every time I have ever updated a video driver it just messed up everything kinda like what you describe first thing I would do is make sure that it didn't just resize your video resolution to do this right click anywhere on the desktop and go to personalize then go to display settings and now is where i get fuzzy since im not to familiar with Vista yet find  where you change your resolution and try changing it higher or lower to see if that helps you if that does not work go to your laptops website which would be HP and find the drivers for your laptop and reinstall the video drivers. That should set them back.