Ghost in the machine

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astrauss

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Often when I drag an icon (say for a JPG) onto the taskbar, hover onto the program I want to open it with, the program window comes to the front, and I drop it into the window (say into a new Outlook message as attachment).

A ghost of the icon being dragged will then be left on screen. I then have to log-off or reboot to get rid of it.

It also happens with menu options i.e. in Google Chrome.

Has anyone else come across this problem? Ho do I solve it?
 
astrauss said:
Often when I drag an icon (say for a JPG) onto the taskbar, hover onto the program I want to open it with, the program window comes to the front, and I drop it into the window (say into a new Outlook message as attachment).

A ghost of the icon being dragged will then be left on screen. I then have to log-off or reboot to get rid of it.

It also happens with menu options i.e. in Google Chrome.

Has anyone else come across this problem? Ho do I solve it?
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It seems to be a video issue. Try to find the latest drivers for your video card,
reinstall the current drivers or go back to a previous version. It may also be a low memory issue or a low system resource issue. Finally if using XP try to cut back on the 2D acceleration, Control Panel/Display Properties/Advanced/Troubleshoot and push the slider leftwards and/or disable 'write combining'.

It may be a low system RAM issue.

It may also be a graphics card memory corruption issue - in that case your card may be overheating or may be damaged.
 
astrauss said:
Often when I drag an icon (say for a JPG) onto the taskbar, hover onto the program I want to open it with, the program window comes to the front, and I drop it into the window (say into a new Outlook message as attachment).

A ghost of the icon being dragged will then be left on screen. I then have to log-off or reboot to get rid of it.

It also happens with menu options i.e. in Google Chrome.

Has anyone else come across this problem? Ho do I solve it?
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You do not need to reboot man, just go drag another icon slightly to the right and it will go away, i have the same problem as i work alot in coreldraw so i drag alot of files from my desktop into coreldraw.

Both Vista and Xp have the same problem, i thought it may go away with vista but it did not, again do not reboot just go drag that file or another file slightly to the left of the desktop area and it will go away.

No idea how to fix it either.

It is not any of those peter, it has been the same for a long time now peter, i have been through many vga cards and many drivers and it is the same story, although i do not recall it happening when i had an ati 3850 :). No it does not mean your vga card is damaged or over heating, its a bug in either windows or nvidia drivers.
 
PeterCH said:
It seems to be a video issue. Try to find the latest drivers for your video card,
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I'll give this a try.

PeterCH said:
It may be a low system RAM issue.
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I have 4GB running Vista Business 32bit, it normally uses just over 2GB, even when pushing it hard.

PeterCH said:
It may also be a graphics card memory corruption issue - in that case your card may be overheating or may be damaged.
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Let's hope not!!

Thanks for your advice
 
killadoob said:
You do not need to reboot man, just go drag another icon slightly to the right and it will go away,
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You're a genius man!!

I used the same icon and the ghost disappeared the moment I clicked the real icon.

As a matter of interest, does it also work with using a different icon?

This "solution" does not solve the menu (normally a right-click menu) ghosting in Chrome though.
 
killadoob said:
It is not any of those peter, it has been the same for a long time now peter, i have been through many vga cards and many drivers and it is the same story, although i do not recall it happening when i had an ati 3850 :). No it does not mean your vga card is damaged or over heating, its a bug in either windows or nvidia drivers.
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From what I've seen, this can indeed be a display adapter memory issue.
 
Is there some freeware app I can use to test this myself?
 
Sloot, i have had 6600le, 6800gt, 8800gts 320 ati 3850, nvidia 9600gt and 9800gx2, all of the cards apart ati 3850 suffered the same problem and this is why i say it is not a hardware fault, either a bug in windows or a bug in the nvidia drivers, not sure about amd but i don't recall the problem with it.

Ast uninstall your vga drivers and see if it does it :). i'm to lazy to do that hahaha.
 
killadoob said:
Sloot, i have had 6600le, 6800gt, 8800gts 320 ati 3850, nvidia 9600gt and 9800gx2, all of the cards apart ati 3850 suffered the same problem and this is why i say it is not a hardware fault, either a bug in windows or a bug in the nvidia drivers, not sure about amd but i don't recall the problem with it.
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I'm not arguing with you, I'm saying I've had this and similar problems with many different brands of display adapters. Replaced it and it worked. Every time.
 
you could also press ctrl+shift+alt(in xp) and press the cancel from the shut down menu.This will kill explorer.Simply just rerun explorer.exe fron task manager.
 
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