having various problems w/Windows XP...HELP

I am having a couple problems. Primary is that when I am on a screen
(particularly on the internet.) the main page will be active. But then about
every 5 seconds or so, the blue bar across the top of the page lightens and
that page is no longer active. I have to either click somewhere on the page
to reactivate it, or wait about 10 seconds and it reactivates itself. If I am
typing it is tremendously irritating because I will type a few letters, then
the cursor disappears. I have to either wait the 10 seconds or click where I
was typing to get the cursor back. I suspected a virus. Have run virus
program though and comes up clean. Do spyware check, same thing. Downloaded
all the microsoft updates. Still happens. Anyone have any ideas?

Good evening, Have you always had this problem? Have you changed any
hardware on your system? i.e. Video Card? Or Video Card software. Does this
happen with most of your programs or just internet explorer? Maybe you can
adjust your video settings by right cliking the desktop, click properties,
click settings, click trouble shoot and there you can adjust hardware
acceleration. Move the slider from full to the next tick mark. Restart and
see if that fixes the problem. Hope my two cents helps and please let us all
know

"Lauri" wrote:

I am having a couple problems. Primary is that when I am on a screen
(particularly on the internet.) the main page will be active. But then about
every 5 seconds or so, the blue bar across the top of the page lightens and
that page is no longer active. I have to either click somewhere on the page
to reactivate it, or wait about 10 seconds and it reactivates itself. If I am
typing it is tremendously irritating because I will type a few letters, then
the cursor disappears. I have to either wait the 10 seconds or click where I
was typing to get the cursor back. I suspected a virus. Have run virus
program though and comes up clean. Do spyware check, same thing. Downloaded
all the microsoft updates. Still happens. Anyone have any ideas?

No I have not always had this problem. Just in the last week or so. And no I
have not done anything new to this computer since buying 2 years ago. That's
why I thought it might be a virus. I will try your suggestion though and let
you know. Thanks.

"Jim" wrote:

Good evening, Have you always had this problem? Have you changed any
hardware on your system? i.e. Video Card? Or Video Card software. Does this
happen with most of your programs or just internet explorer? Maybe you can
adjust your video settings by right cliking the desktop, click properties,
click settings, click trouble shoot and there you can adjust hardware
acceleration. Move the slider from full to the next tick mark. Restart and
see if that fixes the problem. Hope my two cents helps and please let us all
know

"Lauri" wrote:

I am having a couple problems. Primary is that when I am on a screen
(particularly on the internet.) the main page will be active. But then about
every 5 seconds or so, the blue bar across the top of the page lightens and
that page is no longer active. I have to either click somewhere on the page
to reactivate it, or wait about 10 seconds and it reactivates itself. If I am
typing it is tremendously irritating because I will type a few letters, then
the cursor disappears. I have to either wait the 10 seconds or click where I
was typing to get the cursor back. I suspected a virus. Have run virus
program though and comes up clean. Do spyware check, same thing. Downloaded
all the microsoft updates. Still happens. Anyone have any ideas?

I tried your suggestion. I cannot find where to adjust the hardware
acceleration. When I to into settings and then click troubleshoot, it does
not give me that option. It simply asks me what I am having trouble with.
Then it lists 5 or 6 different options, none of which cover my problem. There
is no place to adjust the acceleration rate.

"Jim" wrote:

Good evening, Have you always had this problem? Have you changed any
hardware on your system? i.e. Video Card? Or Video Card software. Does this
happen with most of your programs or just internet explorer? Maybe you can
adjust your video settings by right cliking the desktop, click properties,
click settings, click trouble shoot and there you can adjust hardware
acceleration. Move the slider from full to the next tick mark. Restart and
see if that fixes the problem. Hope my two cents helps and please let us all
know

"Lauri" wrote:

I am having a couple problems. Primary is that when I am on a screen
(particularly on the internet.) the main page will be active. But then about
every 5 seconds or so, the blue bar across the top of the page lightens and
that page is no longer active. I have to either click somewhere on the page
to reactivate it, or wait about 10 seconds and it reactivates itself. If I am
typing it is tremendously irritating because I will type a few letters, then
the cursor disappears. I have to either wait the 10 seconds or click where I
was typing to get the cursor back. I suspected a virus. Have run virus
program though and comes up clean. Do spyware check, same thing. Downloaded
all the microsoft updates. Still happens. Anyone have any ideas?

Sorry, right click on the desktop, left click properties, click on settings
tab, near the bottom is button named advanced, ckick this button, another box
opens and click on the tab named troubleshoot, here is where the hardware
acceleration slider is.

"Lauri" wrote:

I tried your suggestion. I cannot find where to adjust the hardware
acceleration. When I to into settings and then click troubleshoot, it does
not give me that option. It simply asks me what I am having trouble with.
Then it lists 5 or 6 different options, none of which cover my problem. There
is no place to adjust the acceleration rate.

"Jim" wrote:

Good evening, Have you always had this problem? Have you changed any
hardware on your system? i.e. Video Card? Or Video Card software. Does this
happen with most of your programs or just internet explorer? Maybe you can
adjust your video settings by right cliking the desktop, click properties,
click settings, click trouble shoot and there you can adjust hardware
acceleration. Move the slider from full to the next tick mark. Restart and
see if that fixes the problem. Hope my two cents helps and please let us all
know

"Lauri" wrote:

I am having a couple problems. Primary is that when I am on a screen
(particularly on the internet.) the main page will be active. But then about
every 5 seconds or so, the blue bar across the top of the page lightens and
that page is no longer active. I have to either click somewhere on the page
to reactivate it, or wait about 10 seconds and it reactivates itself. If I am
typing it is tremendously irritating because I will type a few letters, then
the cursor disappears. I have to either wait the 10 seconds or click where I
was typing to get the cursor back. I suspected a virus. Have run virus
program though and comes up clean. Do spyware check, same thing. Downloaded
all the microsoft updates. Still happens. Anyone have any ideas?

thanks...found it. I installed new virus program and it found several
trojans. I got rid of them and want to see if this fixes the problem. If
not, I will try your suggestion. Thanks again.

"JimC" wrote:

Sorry, right click on the desktop, left click properties, click on settings
tab, near the bottom is button named advanced, ckick this button, another box
opens and click on the tab named troubleshoot, here is where the hardware
acceleration slider is.

"Lauri" wrote:

I tried your suggestion. I cannot find where to adjust the hardware
acceleration. When I to into settings and then click troubleshoot, it does
not give me that option. It simply asks me what I am having trouble with.
Then it lists 5 or 6 different options, none of which cover my problem. There
is no place to adjust the acceleration rate.

"Jim" wrote:

Good evening, Have you always had this problem? Have you changed any
hardware on your system? i.e. Video Card? Or Video Card software. Does this
happen with most of your programs or just internet explorer? Maybe you can
adjust your video settings by right cliking the desktop, click properties,
click settings, click trouble shoot and there you can adjust hardware
acceleration. Move the slider from full to the next tick mark. Restart and
see if that fixes the problem. Hope my two cents helps and please let us all
know

"Lauri" wrote:

I am having a couple problems. Primary is that when I am on a screen
(particularly on the internet.) the main page will be active. But then about
every 5 seconds or so, the blue bar across the top of the page lightens and
that page is no longer active. I have to either click somewhere on the page
to reactivate it, or wait about 10 seconds and it reactivates itself. If I am
typing it is tremendously irritating because I will type a few letters, then
the cursor disappears. I have to either wait the 10 seconds or click where I
was typing to get the cursor back. I suspected a virus. Have run virus
program though and comes up clean. Do spyware check, same thing. Downloaded
all the microsoft updates. Still happens. Anyone have any ideas?

Happy Friday, Im glad you foun the problems and the hardware acceleration. I
must thank you for posting the results. Curious tho, u said you ran a virus
and found none, but that you ran another virus program and found several.
What anti virus program were you using before and now?

"Lauri" wrote:

thanks...found it. I installed new virus program and it found several
trojans. I got rid of them and want to see if this fixes the problem. If
not, I will try your suggestion. Thanks again.

"JimC" wrote:

Sorry, right click on the desktop, left click properties, click on settings
tab, near the bottom is button named advanced, ckick this button, another box
opens and click on the tab named troubleshoot, here is where the hardware
acceleration slider is.

"Lauri" wrote:

I tried your suggestion. I cannot find where to adjust the hardware
acceleration. When I to into settings and then click troubleshoot, it does
not give me that option. It simply asks me what I am having trouble with.
Then it lists 5 or 6 different options, none of which cover my problem. There
is no place to adjust the acceleration rate.

"Jim" wrote:

Good evening, Have you always had this problem? Have you changed any
hardware on your system? i.e. Video Card? Or Video Card software. Does this
happen with most of your programs or just internet explorer? Maybe you can
adjust your video settings by right cliking the desktop, click properties,
click settings, click trouble shoot and there you can adjust hardware
acceleration. Move the slider from full to the next tick mark. Restart and
see if that fixes the problem. Hope my two cents helps and please let us all
know

"Lauri" wrote:

I am having a couple problems. Primary is that when I am on a screen
(particularly on the internet.) the main page will be active. But then about
every 5 seconds or so, the blue bar across the top of the page lightens and
that page is no longer active. I have to either click somewhere on the page
to reactivate it, or wait about 10 seconds and it reactivates itself. If I am
typing it is tremendously irritating because I will type a few letters, then
the cursor disappears. I have to either wait the 10 seconds or click where I
was typing to get the cursor back. I suspected a virus. Have run virus
program though and comes up clean. Do spyware check, same thing. Downloaded
all the microsoft updates. Still happens. Anyone have any ideas?

I had AVG free edition. Was great at first, but seemed to now be missing
viruses (even though I updated frequently). I now have McAfree and seems to
have located at least these viruses. Who knows? I hope this one works for a
while! I'll keep yo posted. Thanks for your help

"JimC" wrote:

Happy Friday, Im glad you foun the problems and the hardware acceleration. I
must thank you for posting the results. Curious tho, u said you ran a virus
and found none, but that you ran another virus program and found several.
What anti virus program were you using before and now?

"Lauri" wrote:

thanks...found it. I installed new virus program and it found several
trojans. I got rid of them and want to see if this fixes the problem. If
not, I will try your suggestion. Thanks again.

"JimC" wrote:

Sorry, right click on the desktop, left click properties, click on settings
tab, near the bottom is button named advanced, ckick this button, another box
opens and click on the tab named troubleshoot, here is where the hardware
acceleration slider is.

"Lauri" wrote:

I tried your suggestion. I cannot find where to adjust the hardware
acceleration. When I to into settings and then click troubleshoot, it does
not give me that option. It simply asks me what I am having trouble with.
Then it lists 5 or 6 different options, none of which cover my problem. There
is no place to adjust the acceleration rate.

"Jim" wrote:

Good evening, Have you always had this problem? Have you changed any
hardware on your system? i.e. Video Card? Or Video Card software. Does this
happen with most of your programs or just internet explorer? Maybe you can
adjust your video settings by right cliking the desktop, click properties,
click settings, click trouble shoot and there you can adjust hardware
acceleration. Move the slider from full to the next tick mark. Restart and
see if that fixes the problem. Hope my two cents helps and please let us all
know

"Lauri" wrote:

I am having a couple problems. Primary is that when I am on a screen
(particularly on the internet.) the main page will be active. But then about
every 5 seconds or so, the blue bar across the top of the page lightens and
that page is no longer active. I have to either click somewhere on the page
to reactivate it, or wait about 10 seconds and it reactivates itself. If I am
typing it is tremendously irritating because I will type a few letters, then
the cursor disappears. I have to either wait the 10 seconds or click where I
was typing to get the cursor back. I suspected a virus. Have run virus
program though and comes up clean. Do spyware check, same thing. Downloaded
all the microsoft updates. Still happens. Anyone have any ideas?