Residual Menu Items stay on Screen...Monitor? RAM?

Hello All! I am hoping someone can help me with a very annoying issue that has been occuring with my Dell 17in, 2005 Monitor.

Here is the gist:
Say you right click on a menu and it highlights a menu item. That highlighted menu item will stay on my monitor until I go into Display properties and modify the refresh rate or change the color quality, something that just refreshes my monitor. It is happening more and more and more. As you can see I am getting annoyed. :-D

Any help troubleshooting or diagnosing will be very appreciative. Thank you for your time!
Connie B.

I have an image of it here:
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This is where I spelled properties wrong above and I right clicked to get the correct spelling and that is the option it gave me. And it just stayed in this transparent form until I refreshed.

Again thank you!

75 Hertz

Swap with another monitor if possible, or take your monitor and hook it up to somebody else's PC if that's easier.

It sounds like your monitor might be dying though.

I found the answer finally on in July. It was driving me nuts too. It is a MS Windows SP3 bug. To fix it follow these steps:


1. Click on Start Menu or From you desktop shortcut.
2. Right Click on My Computer
3. Select Properties
4. Click on Advanced Tab
5. Click on Setting for the Performance Section
6. Click on Custom

There are three items. You might only need to uncheck one of them, which I will tell you in a minute but I did all three. Trust me, you'll be happy.

Uncheck the following:
Fade or Slide Menus into view (optional)
Fade or Slide ToolTips into view (optional)
Fade out menu items after clicking (MUST)

Click ok twice and you will no longer have the problem.

Thanks for reminding me about this post. I really wanted to share this knowledge and I totally forgot I posted here.

Cheers!
Connie