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Thanks for the tip I'll give it a try. The trouble is that because it is random it will not be easy to figure out when and if it is fixed. But, hey ho, as the great Charles Petzold wrote, "This is Windows, no one said it would be easy".
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I just started that and now I have the "Properties" item stuck on the screen.
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It's painful stuff when Windows fails in these ways.
Hey, also I noticed that on that 2nd window (where the performance options checkboxes are)...if you choose the "Adjust for best performance" radio button then it turns all of those options off.
That is probably the way to go just to see if it fixes it first. However, I don't know how ugly windows will become at that point.
Good luck.
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raddevus wrote: I don't know how ugly windows will become at that point
He's on w10; already ugly.
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Do you have Automatic Updates turned off? Because my various Windows 10 machines have all sorts of weirdness when there is a Windows Update pending, especially one that wants to restart the machine, and I ignore them for too long. I've seen the issues you are talking about only once on one machine, but on all of them I will experience keyboard and/or mouse weirdness. I used to get frustrated and curse at my machine(s), but now the first thing I do is check Windows update. Restarting and letting it update immediately cures the wonkiness.
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No. Updates are automatic and none pending as far as I am aware.
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+1 for the video card. If this has only started happening after replacing a video driver, there's some good odds it's responsible for this. I'd try rolling back to the previous version.
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Looks like it is almost certainly due to "Fade out menu items after clicking". Switch that off and the problem disappears, re-enable it and the problem immediately comes back. I guess it must be somehow connected to an update that occurred in the last month or so. Maybe I'll ask Microsoft.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Looks like it is almost certainly due to "Fade out menu items after clicking". Switch that off and the problem disappears, re-enable it and the problem immediately comes back.
That's great. It's always a fantastic feeling to actually get to the root-cause of these types of issues. Well, at least something you can point at that directly causes the issue.
You may have received a new Video card driver in the update and that may have caused the issue.
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Yes, a number of people suggested the video driver as the culprit. So something else to investigate. Thanks again for your suggestion, it helped to narrow it down quite quickly.
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I experience this with SSMS and Redgate tools. Their drop downs have a tendency to still stay visible.
I just do as Sander said go to the offending app and minimize it or close it.
I am using latest version of Windows 10.
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The problem occurs almost exclusively with Windows tools, and despite repeating the clicks I cannot get rid of the offending item.
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It's rare, but I saw that very thing twice last week.
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I see it on occasion with W7 too. I think it has a video driver anomaly. Try updating the drivers for the video card. For me it got to the point it was repeatable and a video driver fixed it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I'd say it's probably the video drivers, too.
One of my laptops would randomly leave inactive images of pop-ups and even windows on the screen. Removing and re-installing the video drivers fixed it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Do they have Win64 or Linux versions?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I would also say video drivers are most likely the culprit though poorly-written code may be assisting.
Instead of rebooting, try Win+Ctrl+Shift+B to reset the graphics driver. If that resolves it, that's the culprit, IMHO.
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Thanks, I will try that next time it happens.
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Outlook has been guilty of this for over a decade.
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Yes.
Another wierd one is in Windows Explorer in "List" view with several columns and you click on a program file in a column, to the right side of the open window, the columns jump over one column to the left AND does not open. This has been happening in Windows ever since I can remember.
But it does not always happen!!!???
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Interesting, but I have never seen that one. Will keep my eyes open for any future occurrences.
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Was getting this myself after installing a couple of crappy shell extensions.
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Without feeling, inferior love is out of order (9)
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HEARTLESS ? == without feeling
less heart = inferior love
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Correct, well done!
Over to you for tomorrow then.
modified 23-Jan-19 4:47am.
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