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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate).
Anyone else seen it?
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Very rarely, but I've had it for years on different machines and even different versions of Windows...
What usually helps for me is to go back to the program the context menu belongs to and opening the context menu again.
I think I've had two or three instances where even that didn't help and restarting the computer was the only option.
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I've been getting that on and off for years
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On & off for a long time (pre-Win10).
As someone already said, the best way to get rid of this is to go back to the application that opened the menu, and reopen the menu. Closing the menu usually makes the original disappear.
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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Tried that a number of times but it never seems to work.
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This is a possible solution. I've seen similar things and they seem to be related to video card and some of the "Aero" settings.
Edit -I used to have tooltips that would hang out even after I left the window giving the tooltip.
Here's what you can try.
Go to System...Properties...Advanced tab...
See this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/fewOz.png[^]
(You can right click "This PC" from Explorer and click "Properties" to get to that.)
Next you want to choose the first button (Performance) Settings...
When you click that button you will see:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/1c1Ya.png[^]
These are the things that are affecting this.
You can take a snapshot of your settings and basically turn them all off and then turn them back on slowly to test.
There is a good chance one or more of these will solve your problem. Good luck.
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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.
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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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