Re: Workstation desktop occasionally "disappears"

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From: Henry Craven (IUnknown_at_Dot.Nyet)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:04:44 +1100

Sounds to me either a Graphics Driver issue,
or Graphics Memory Usage Issue. 

-- 
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
    Melbourne Australia
"Pat" <pat@reemoovethismp-m.com> wrote in message 
news:Oj1lPLs9EHA.1524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>I have this problem that's persisted for some time.  For some reason 
>all the
> desktop icons and toolbar on my workstation (Windows XP Pro) will
> occasionally disppear (leaving only the blue background ) when opening 
> a
> folder or moving files around.  It doesn't seem to correlate to any
> particular folder - just seems to happen randomly.   It's not a "blue 
> screen
> of death" per se, because there are no error messages and any open
> applications are still  still running.   I can go into the task 
> manager
> switch to any open application and it will appear.  But once I close 
> (or
> minimize) it, it's back to a blank blue screen.  If I log off and then 
> log
> on again, the desktop reappears as normal.  I've checked the Windows 
> XP
> event logs for errors but there are none.
>
> Does anyone know what might be going on?  It's mainly a nusiance, but 
> I
> would like to correct whatever the problem is.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Pat
>
>

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