Strange Behaviour

[Clayton]

Since last week while working away on my system some icons in the taskbar
will look like 8-bit colour (mainly the Microsoft Outlook icon) when this
happens I can not click any icons on the desktop nor can I access the
control panel and the only way to fix the problem until it happens again is
to shutdown the system and restart, I can not do this by going to
Start/Shutdown, the only way is to Ctrl/Alt/Delete and shutdown that way.
When this problem happens I try click on icons on the desktop etc and
nothing happens, sometimes I get a message saying "There is not enough free
memory to run this program. Quit one or more programs and try again"
I have 2GB of memory and a video card of 256MB, CPU of 3.4GHz, so I'm not
really sure if this is a hardware or software problem. I have reinstalled
the video drivers using the latest version, BIOS is updated to the latest
version.
Please help me out here.

I am due to format and reinstall windows if need be


Cheers
Clayton

 

[Clayton]

Also after restarting the quick launch toolbar has disappeared

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Clayton,

Start by checking the system for unwanted spy and ad programs, these can
help:

AdawareII www.lavasoft.de
Spybot www.safer-networking.org

From MVP Richard Harper on cleaning up malware infested systems:
http://rgharper.mvps.org/cleanit.htm

This one can help you avoid these programs from being installed in the first
place:
Spyware Blaster: www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827315

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Clayton]

No spyware and viruses whatsoever on the system

Hi Clayton,

Start by checking the system for unwanted spy and ad programs, these can
help:

AdawareII www.lavasoft.de
Spybot www.safer-networking.org

From MVP Richard Harper on cleaning up malware infested systems:
http://rgharper.mvps.org/cleanit.htm

This one can help you avoid these programs from being installed in the
first place:
Spyware Blaster: www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827315

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Clayton]

It also happens when the computer is running and the monitor has been
switched off for a period of time