corrupt add/remove programs and windows explorer bar

[Guest]

Weird graphical errors when i mouseover windows explorer bar. everything
shows the top windows bar on mouseover makes it unreadble. Also add/remove
programs is corrupt showing a double window and when i mouseover or scroll it
all becomes unreadable. when i refresh or resize a window all is good til i
put my mouse pionter on it again. did a clean install no spyeare or virus.
never seen this problem before. help plz.

 

[Heirloom]

Does a reboot put things back to normal, even temporarily?
Heirloom, old and wondering

 

[Guest]

nope not even a full system restore. I dont know enough about shell
extentions, seems like it could be that. The system works fine except windows
explore bar, search, and add/remove programs. all useable(except search,
nowhere to type anything in) but unreadable with the glitchy graphics. I
tried everything from swaping out graphics card to full system restore, only
thing i see is there is sopposed to be 512mb of ram. The system only reports
480. all my other HP's report 512. Thx for the reply.

 

[Guest]

I would bet its a conflict with onboard graphics where as 32 mb of ram is
unaccounted for.

 

[Guest]

a picture of the graphical errors:
http://www.angelfire.com/planet/rambo1967/errors.jpg