Desktop bleed through in OE6

[MFguy]

Recently when you minimize OE adn the maximize it again, the screen does not
fill in correctly. The tool bar is usally gone and you see the desktop
"through" the OE toolbar. Other poeces of the screen will be bad as well like
the folder list blank. The format will continue to degrade if you continue to
min/max the application.
Restarting OE is the only solution and everything is good so long as you
don't minimize it. Seeing a hesitation in painting the IE6 toolbar as well
but so far the toolbar will appear after a brief hesitation.
Any Ideas?

Thanks Scott

[Galen]

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> Recently when you minimize OE adn the maximize it again, the screen
> does not fill in correctly. The tool bar is usally gone and you see
> the desktop "through" the OE toolbar. Other poeces of the screen will
> be bad as well like the folder list blank. The format will continue
> to degrade if you continue to min/max the application.
> Restarting OE is the only solution and everything is good so long as
> you don't minimize it. Seeing a hesitation in painting the IE6
> toolbar as well but so far the toolbar will appear after a brief
> hesitation.
> Any Ideas?
>
> Thanks Scott

The first thing I'd consider is closing out the applications after a while.
Sounds like, looks like, and smells like a memory leak. Assuming your PC is
clean of malware then you can also consider running your desktop as a
separate instance of explorer in it's own memory space and that often has
some strange effects on things like rendering the desktop while stuff like
that happens. At the least it should keep it from crashing the PC when it
reaches that point and the system sees explorer.exe as frozen...

Explorer as a Separate Process:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/tips/sep_explorer.html

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