Application - Layered Hidden Window

[Guest]

Having just received a Breaking News email from CNN about a new worm which
has been shutting computers across the US running Windows 2000 and which can
affect some versions of XP I connected to Microsoft.com to see if there were
any patches. The CNN article claimed Windows have issues a patch. Whilst I
was searching Windows Auto-Update kicked in and downloaded several security
updates which I subsequently installed. I was instructed to restart windows
so clicked OK but got a screen window saying an application was still running
called Layered Hidden Window I clicked close and got another identical window
- clicked close again and then the shutdown commenced.

Anyone any idea what Applic - Layered Hidden Window is??

I am running Windows XP Home

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

This overview discusses features of windows such as window types, states, size, and position
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...nterface/windowing/windows/windowfeatures.asp

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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"Adrian Stephenson" wrote:

| Having just received a Breaking News email from CNN about a new worm which
| has been shutting computers across the US running Windows 2000 and which can
| affect some versions of XP I connected to Microsoft.com to see if there were
| any patches. The CNN article claimed Windows have issues a patch. Whilst I
| was searching Windows Auto-Update kicked in and downloaded several security
| updates which I subsequently installed. I was instructed to restart windows
| so clicked OK but got a screen window saying an application was still running
| called Layered Hidden Window I clicked close and got another identical window
| - clicked close again and then the shutdown commenced.
|
| Anyone any idea what Applic - Layered Hidden Window is??
|
| I am running Windows XP Home

 

[peterk]

http://www.google.ca/search?sourcei...,GGLD:2005-06,GGLD:en&q=Layered+Hidden+Window
Google is your friend
peterk

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that!

If my scanning of the info on the link you provided has homed in correctly
it looks as if the system can create layered windows automatically, although
I don't claim to understand all the info provided and I did not see reference
to "hidden" layered windows.

As my PC has been playing up recently, despite a bang up todate security
system, and frequent scans by several different spyware programs imcluding
Windows own, I feared that perhaps the reference to hidden windows was
indicative of something intrusive running on my PC in the background!!