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I changed my settings last night, but then went to bed. Gonna try "breaking" it today. I'll keep you posted.

Worked for a couple hours today. The problem still exists even after changing settings.

Yeah, actually, that seems rather close to my experience as well. While it seems to have made a noticeable improvement, it still doesn't totally stop it. It significantly helped mine (lowered the number of instances), but just not totally. [btw, just for the heck of it, I tried disabling the "hardware acceleration" option in Firefox; but it didn't seem to have any impact/affect; also, my computer runs 24/7 so I'm not generally doing many reboots between tests/changes]

I'd definitely appreciate hearing if doing the hdd format/reinstall corrects the issue for you! (tho honestly, I don't know if I could stomach that approach for myself!)

sidebar too: I just noticed that you're using Win7, whereas I'm using XP; sorry if some of my remarks/posts confused that.

What brand of video card are you using btw? Mine's an NVidia (GT220).

[also fwiw/fyc: for some reason I'm not getting email notifications of new replies here?! I've ticked the "enable" notification option, but I'm getting nada]

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fwiw/mmv (info from my curiosity romp):

Most video cards are as powerful as many complete computer systems were not too long ago because they need to process huge amounts of information from advanced games and graphics programs.

Sometimes the processing power in the video hardware that helps accelerate graphics and improve performance can cause problems inside of Windows XP.

These problems can range from strange mouse issues, to problems inside of games and graphics programs, to error messages that can stop your operating system from running at all.

Follow the easy steps to lower the hardware acceleration supplied by your graphics card hardware.

Source: Lower Hardware Acceleration - How to Lower the Video Card Hardware Acceleration in Windows XP

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also:

try fiddling with Hardware accelleration Slider in Display Property | Advanced | Troubleshoot.

OK, the proverbial jury's still in a bit of deliberation, but after trying this, it seems my system has stopped the bleeding (ghosting/scrubbing)!

I basically moved the slider back one notch/increment, then Applied it. I monitored it for a bit, experiencing no bleeding windows, and have now gone back and put the slider to full. So far still so good. It appears from my brief test, and thus far, that merely moving the slider jarred something back to normal?? (my suspicion now is that something in my first video card driver update may have put a glitch into play, and that moving the slider simply put it back into sync somehow; tho the OS update may have been the glitch culprit --we're after all talkin' WinDOHS! Themes being in the same general arena could have triggered it here for you as well?)

Figment, have you tried this yet/at all? Again, it looks promising -thus far- here... I'll keep you posted if it reverts back...

**update**

note the struck-through lines above; after resetting the slider back to Full, I experienced the issue again; argh! I now have it back one position wherein the problem seems (?) to have resolved again... (the position information includes: "Disable cursor and bitmap accelerations. Use this setting to correct problems with the mouse pointer...")

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Figment,

I am encountering what seems to me to be identical to what you're experiencing/describing. I'm not at all familiar with what your doing per "themes", but it's not something I've done at all; thus I question whether that's the cause even, and may instead, be as was it seems the case with me, it's merely coincidental? Regardless, just a shoutout to let you know someone else is experiencing the problem.

On the coincidental aspect, I got both a video card and Windohs XP update (typical security updates?) and it was after rebooting that I eventually noticed the problem (I've referred to it as having "bleeding" windows ie aspects of the windows appear as you mouseover where the window should be appearing but isn't). I've since found another latest video card driver update, but after installing it this week & rebooting, nothing's changed. I had also upgraded my versions of both Firefox and Thunderbird, so I had all sorts of suspects going. At this juncture, I've not been convinced it's those programs as the culprit, as it seems to be happening across the desktop at any given time.

I too would appreciate any assistance in resolving this (pain in the arse!) It becomes quite pesky, aggravating & even frustrating after hours/days of working with it happening.

Perhaps comparing more specifics which we might have in common would help the process of elimination?

I too have a screen cap I can get up if needed/requested (and I then figure out how to best do that in this forum).

OS: WinDOHS XP Pro SP3 B)

VC: Nvidia GT 220