Re: Adden to AFTER sp2 kicked in...

"=?Utf-8?B?c291bmRzZ29vZDk=?=" <soundsgood9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>Sorry about the double post..
>My computer screen regularly quickly flashes off (millisecond type timings)
>when either changing from one prog to another, and sometimes I hear a click
>lick my prog 'Captivate' is running? any ideas about that? I run IE and
>Mozilla with Moz usually as the pref browser.

It is POSSIBLE that this is Windows Explorer crashing and restarting itself.
For some folks that seems to happen when one program exits.

Typically it leaves no trace of evidence why this happens or what you can
hunt down to try to fix the problem. It puts nothing in the event logs
when this happens, a "feature" that I believe is intentional, don't want
people seeing that "windows has crashed and restarted" over and over and
over, they think it better to try to ignore and hide this.

There was a tiny Visual Basic program someone wrote that waited for the
prompt to repaint the screen and used that to let you know it was likely
that this was another Windows Exporer crash. You can find that out there
on the net if you search. I was going to try to change that a little so
it would put an event in the log every time Explorer crashed, but I haven't
got that finished.
.

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