window in systray randomly pops up then dissapears

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Is there any text in the window?

callmemrbill wrote:

> i have a small icon shaped like a rectangular window which will appear at
> various times seemingly unassociated with any particular program or task im
> performing towards the middle of the systray. it will stay maybe 3 seconds
> and dissapear. happens approx every few minutes roughly. is this some sort of
> windows function going on? ive run virus scan, adaware and spybot but has
> found nothing wrong.