Re: Adden to AFTER sp2 kicked in...



"Don Taylor" wrote:

> "=?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.

>thanks Don... I think your view is possible, but I would expect an imminent explorer crash to register some activity slightly before the instance of it crashing and restarting, as mentioned in prev post- I have had no choice but to view the cpu activity whilst this "onscreen flicker and Captivate type screen capture sound " has occurred, so I noticed negligable activity,and believe that it is not the buffer resetting or the... and yes I agree it would be very boring to have to witness every instance of explorer crashing and recovering, albeit disconserting x-happens when it should be a 0 or a 1.
Maybe it's a superhidden extension being caught between processess and...but
If anyone can offer a suggestion as to why most of my windowsxp " APPLY"
buttons have greyed out,and how to change them (admin- me) that would rock,
I can live with the rest, for a while.
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