For some reason, I have a blank program flashing accross my task bar. It is a box with blue accross the top and white on the lower part. It also occurs when I initally boot up my PC. It occurs so quickly and randomly that I haven't been able to click on it to find out what it is. It also is preventing my PC from going to screen saver mode.
View 7 RepliesI have Windows XP Home Edition, 1 user account as an admin. When I push control+alt+del all at once, the task manager flashes up real fast, then closes. When I go to start> run, and type taskmgr.exe, nothing happens. Anyone know what this is? Also, on a separate issue, when I go to microsoft updates, and i click install to download SP2, it says failed,
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I'm scanning for viruses now.
i turn on my desktop computer and i log on and open up my usual programmes then after a while the screen flashes black and back to normal screen , couple flashes later it goes black and the green power button flashes i have to turn it off and on again for it to restart but the problem is still the same.
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