Floating boxes go haywire

[Ergin]

I recently changed the position of the taskbar to be
docked on the left hand edge of the screen. Now, when
those popup floating windows appear they fly right off the
top of the screen, then in about 3 seconds they start
coming back down

It's quite amusing really, I was installing some software
yesterday and there were about 3 or 4 of these windows
flying up and down the screen.

Has anyone else seen this?

//*Ergin

 

[D@annyBoy]

No, you are the first one to report on the UFOs
maybe you should read the faq

Ergin wrote in news:[email protected]

 

[Andre Da Costa]

This is a known issue that will be corrected in beta 2, in the mean time,
place the taskbar back at the bottom and accept the notifications.

 

[Guest]

i have seen this too what is this ?

 

[SP Goodman]

i have seen this too what is this ?

I've always had an additional vertical taskbar on the left edge of the
screen as well. It doesn't stay there however, as on occasion I boot up to
desktop (from restart OR full-off), and the taskbar is gone. The folder its
contents are in doesn't go away - so this is fairly easy to go back and
create a New toolbar based on it. It's a real pain however to have to do it
several times in a day depending on how often one reboots; especially since
I think I shouldn't have to be reestablishing it at ALL...

There have been in the past week occurrances of the desktop refreshing
itself while viewing a window's contents, as a List, Icons, Thumbnails,
Details, anyway you do it. A pause happens, the desktop behind the window
refreshes completely to make all icons default images, then a second refresh
restores the icons to what they should be. In addition I have been finding
occasional repositioning of My Computer and My Documents icons to the left
side of the screen, instead of the right side I keep them on.

Is this a DirectX bug? Active Desktop?

I suspect this comes from the same flaky neighborhood as the Non-hiding or
Invisible Until Log-off/Log-in Notification Taskbar Icon Bug, but who knows?
Hopefully when I make a new pair of PCs for us - most likely >3GHz with that
tasty Radeon 9800 card with the non-fan heat sink - this problem will go
away... but since others have started popping up with this error I thought I
would jump in.

--
Stephen Goodman
* Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff
* http://www.medialinenews.com
* http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack
* http://www.earthlight.net/Gallery