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Odd gui problem.


demby123

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A few weeks ago, I bought an acer aspire 5516 laptop.

 

Recently, after a few hours of use, the gui of windows vista will become glitchy,causing icons on the taskbar to shift to the far left(although clicking in there original positions will activate/open them).Also, the start menu will do the same, but all the icons are not visible.As this was happening earlier i tried to take a screenshot to help diagnose this problem, but the print screen button would not add the picture to the clipboard.This problem ceases when I log off or restart the computer,which is what I just did.

 

Now i've searched around on the internet looking to see if its a common problem with this laptop, but so far its just people asking how to use the webcam(which is nonexistant on this model :( ), so im thinking it has somthing to do with windows vista.

 

 

 

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I'll pop in a reply until someone with a better clue of what's going on comes.

 

 

 

Do you have a Vista disc or recover disc that you could run repair with and see if that changes anything?

 

I also want to say try another graphics driver, but i don't think that's the problem.

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Nothing to worry about.

 

 

 

From past experience I am pretty sure that it is just because you are doing quite graphically demanding activities for your laptop (playing RuneScape in HD). I can only suggest playing in Firefox or the official client in order to minimize the usage somehow. This used to happen to me when I had RuneScape and Photoshop open, or some other heavy graphical program.

 

 

 

To give a temporary fix, you could just restart explorer[Caution: Executable File] or dwm[Caution: Executable File], I think that may restore the GUI to normal temporarily. It also is possible that new drivers could fix this issue, so check out of ATI's site for your graphics card.

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