Adden to AFTER sp2 kicked in...

[soundsgood9]

Sorry about the double post..
My computer screen regularly quickly flashes off (millisecond type timings)
when either changing from one prog to another, and sometimes I hear a click
lick my prog 'Captivate' is running? any ideas about that? I run IE and
Mozilla with Moz usually as the pref browser.

[Don Taylor]

"=?Utf-8?B?c291bmRzZ29vZDk=?=" > writes:
>Sorry about the double post..
>My computer screen regularly quickly flashes off (millisecond type timings)
>when either changing from one prog to another, and sometimes I hear a click
>lick my prog 'Captivate' is running? any ideas about that? I run IE and
>Mozilla with Moz usually as the pref browser.

It is POSSIBLE that this is Windows Explorer crashing and restarting itself.
For some folks that seems to happen when one program exits.

Typically it leaves no trace of evidence why this happens or what you can
hunt down to try to fix the problem. It puts nothing in the event logs
when this happens, a "feature" that I believe is intentional, don't want
people seeing that "windows has crashed and restarted" over and over and
over, they think it better to try to ignore and hide this.

There was a tiny Visual Basic program someone wrote that waited for the
prompt to repaint the screen and used that to let you know it was likely
that this was another Windows Exporer crash. You can find that out there
on the net if you search. I was going to try to change that a little so
it would put an event in the log every time Explorer crashed, but I haven't
got that finished.

[soundsgood9]

"Don Taylor" wrote:

> "=?Utf-8?B?c291bmRzZ29vZDk=?=" > writes:
> >Sorry about the double post..
> >My computer screen regularly quickly flashes off (millisecond type timings)
> >when either changing from one prog to another, and sometimes I hear a click
> >lick my prog 'Captivate' is running? any ideas about that? I run IE and
> >Mozilla with Moz usually as the pref browser.
>
> It is POSSIBLE that this is Windows Explorer crashing and restarting itself.
> For some folks that seems to happen when one program exits.
>
> Typically it leaves no trace of evidence why this happens or what you can
> hunt down to try to fix the problem. It puts nothing in the event logs
> when this happens, a "feature" that I believe is intentional, don't want
> people seeing that "windows has crashed and restarted" over and over and
> over, they think it better to try to ignore and hide this.
>
> There was a tiny Visual Basic program someone wrote that waited for the
> prompt to repaint the screen and used that to let you know it was likely
> that this was another Windows Exporer crash. You can find that out there
> on the net if you search. I was going to try to change that a little so
> it would put an event in the log every time Explorer crashed, but I haven't
> got that finished.

>thanks Don... I think your view is possible, but I would expect an imminent explorer crash to register some activity slightly before the instance of it crashing and restarting, as mentioned in prev post- I have had no choice but to view the cpu activity whilst this "onscreen flicker and Captivate type screen capture sound " has occurred, so I noticed negligable activity,and believe that it is not the buffer resetting or the... and yes I agree it would be very boring to have to witness every instance of explorer crashing and recovering, albeit disconserting x-happens when it should be a 0 or a 1.
Maybe it's a superhidden extension being caught between processess and...but
If anyone can offer a suggestion as to why most of my windowsxp " APPLY"
buttons have greyed out,and how to change them (admin- me) that would rock,
I can live with the rest, for a while.