- Jan 9, 2014
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"Suddenly" my computer has been experiencing a number of issues which are making it nearly unusable.
The issues are as follows:
-Invisible/empty content boxes when right clicking and hovering over items that usually display tips. The outline of a text box will appear, but the contents are transparent...if I press "PRT SCRN" on the keyboard in an attempt to show you what it looks like, it fixes the issues (at least until I hover over something else or right click again).
-Programs not opening when I attempt to launch them.
-Windows create weird "trails" when I drag them (similar to that mouse pointer tails affect).
-What seems to be very laggy/slow loading of simple processes (i.e. opening Chrome, accessing windows directory, displaying live updates in task manager, etc.)
-*Update* Starting Windows in safe mode seems to eliminate the issue, so I'm guessing its not a hardware issue.
It seems that Mozilla Firefox is the only program (which I have tried so far) that works without issue.
I say this has happened suddenly; however, I have not really used it much over the past 2-3 weeks, so I'm not sure exactly when this started happening. As a result, I am unable to pinpoint any specific changes which might have caused this. Today I restored to a restore point created on Aug 14th, however, this did not fix the issue.
Could you please let me know what you think?
Thank you.
*Update* Holding print screen seems to force the graphical issues into "working". Also, task manager shows my system to be using 3.9 gb of ram with just Mozilla open.
The issues are as follows:
-Invisible/empty content boxes when right clicking and hovering over items that usually display tips. The outline of a text box will appear, but the contents are transparent...if I press "PRT SCRN" on the keyboard in an attempt to show you what it looks like, it fixes the issues (at least until I hover over something else or right click again).
-Programs not opening when I attempt to launch them.
-Windows create weird "trails" when I drag them (similar to that mouse pointer tails affect).
-What seems to be very laggy/slow loading of simple processes (i.e. opening Chrome, accessing windows directory, displaying live updates in task manager, etc.)
-*Update* Starting Windows in safe mode seems to eliminate the issue, so I'm guessing its not a hardware issue.
It seems that Mozilla Firefox is the only program (which I have tried so far) that works without issue.
I say this has happened suddenly; however, I have not really used it much over the past 2-3 weeks, so I'm not sure exactly when this started happening. As a result, I am unable to pinpoint any specific changes which might have caused this. Today I restored to a restore point created on Aug 14th, however, this did not fix the issue.
Could you please let me know what you think?
Thank you.
*Update* Holding print screen seems to force the graphical issues into "working". Also, task manager shows my system to be using 3.9 gb of ram with just Mozilla open.
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