Cut off menu bar windows 10 with solution [Nvidia hybrid]

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BaelfireNightshd
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Cut off menu bar windows 10 with solution [Nvidia hybrid]

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OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24291 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19
Hash: 7b5e18a0759de778b74d3a5c17eba9cb815035ac
Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.0
Locale: English/United States (en_US)

Here's a problem I ran into and how I fixed it.

When I installed FreeCAD and ran it for the first time, the menu bar and some of the top row of buttons was cut off by the windows title bar. This was related to hybrid graphics for me (as mentioned in the known issues, just for different issues)
FreeCAD missing menu bar.png
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So I just changed the GPU to use the discrete GPU and then relaunched and it was fixed.

I made this post, cause the known issues don't say anything about this particular issue and I only tried it on a hunch. I hope this helps some other people!
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