I couldn't even enter Safe Mode (through Shift - Restart)! My computer just wouldn't do it and would boot back into normal mode. System restore didn't work because drive C: needs repaired so I tried rebooting my laptop in Safe Mode, which apparently was how my computer finally decided to actually fix drive C: but also deleting the restore point I've made before this whole process. NVIDIA installer now gives me an error and I also can't install Microsoft Basic Display Adapter, the latter of which replaced the uninstalled driver in my first reinstallation. Icons on my screen stayed large (it usually resets back to what it was before, small in this case, as it did in my first reinstallation) and, more importantly, the Display Adapter dropdown is no longer visible. This time, after the initial uninstallation, Windows automatically reinstalled the driver so I uninstalled it again before rebooting and that's when issues popped up. Everything worked fine, even though I'm connected to the internet when I'm apparently not supposed to be, but then I realized I might've missed a few things when selecting Express installation instead of Custom for my NVIDIA driver so I repeated the process again.

I've decided to reinstall my graphics driver to see if that solves any issues and, after looking through DDU's website (guru3d I suppose), came to the conclusion that I can probably just use Windows uninstall for the process. They're games I've played before that ran perfectly fine even when my laptop was pretty dirty and I haven't cleaned it for months but now I'm getting it across every games that I play.

I've been having issues recently when playing any games on my laptop where the game would be running fine then the frame rate would just drop to rather significantly to what feels like 30 FPS or even lower and the only way to fix it is to, interesting, ALT-TAB back into the game the and the frame rate would stabilize.

Display adapter not showing in laptop