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| 258611 | 2004-08-05 20:39:00 | My wife's got this Toshiba Satellite laptop, 1.8GHz Celeron, 256 RAM, XP Pro. On the desktop there is this big square grey area that is staying there no matter what she does - with all kinds of backgrounds the grey square stays. If I knew how to copy the screen and post it, I would have posted this. I think - reading from previous posts - that it's got something to do with the screen? Thanks Sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 258612 | 2004-08-05 21:38:00 | How big in cm and can you click on it and drag it? | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 258613 | 2004-08-05 21:46:00 | No you can't drag it - and it's about 2.5 cm square. I'm trying to upload the image to show this thing to you guys Sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 258614 | 2004-08-05 21:53:00 | The image : sal.neoburn.net The square is on the right hand side, more or less in he middle of the screen Sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 258615 | 2004-08-05 22:04:00 | > On the desktop there is this big square grey area that is staying there no matter what she does - with all kinds of backgrounds the grey square stays. When you open a program is the square still visible when the window covers it? I have come across a similar problem with an e-mail client "Incredimail", has this ever been installed? Or has anything elese been recently installed? |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 258616 | 2004-08-05 22:10:00 | Looks like "Sticky notes" Putting notes on screen, rather than the paper one's. Daft idea I always thought - me, bits of paper everywhere. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 258617 | 2004-08-05 22:16:00 | No - any other window (like this one) - it's gone. It's only on the desktop it seems - and in startup, before all the icons load, the image loads first and then the square is not showing. It only appears after the whole setup/icons/etc has loaded She tried to install Incredimail some time ago but it was unsuccessful, so I uninstalled it Recent installs : last one Spybot 1.3. No actual big installations - loaded Paint Shop Pro about 6 months ago. WinXP updates - but then the square appeared about say 4 weeks ago, without any funny installs. No malware or spyware or virii Sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 258618 | 2004-08-05 22:25:00 | I would try a reg scanner, maybe some files/fragments have been left behind, file types still listed?#? after the uninstall of Incredimail. I use jv16 to scan. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 258619 | 2004-08-05 22:29:00 | Does it apear when booted into safe mode? | metla (154) | ||
| 258620 | 2004-08-05 22:44:00 | No Metla, Safe mode - boots to black screen, no square Sarel |
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