[acablue]

I'm not sure what I did to cause this, but just yesterday these little squares have started appearing all over my desktop and windows, including the taskbar and start menu. Check it out:



I just recently updated my graphics driver so I know that's probably not the problem. Also, I use Windows XP Pro with SP 3.

[acablue]

Really? No one here has ever seen this before? Any ideas?

[Rollin' Rog]

Almost certainly video card related.

Not overclocking it are you?

It may be going bad -- that could be confirmed if you start seeing display anomalies in Safe Mode or while Windows is booting.

[acablue]

Nope...the graphics card is a crappy integrated card, so it's not OC'd. What's very strange is that these squares are intermittent...sometimes I see them and sometimes I don't. I'll try booting into safe mode.

[Rollin' Rog]

Sometimes anomalies like that can be caused by overheating -- if there is a time or stress element here, that would be worth pursuing.

Is there a system slow down when you are seeing that?

[acablue]

No slowdown whatsoever. The squares appear regardless of how many applications I have open or how much RAM I'm using.

[Tufenuf]

acablue, I've never seen anything like this but right click your Desktop, choose Properties, under the Desktop tab click the Customize Desktop button, under the Web tab make sure that all items are unchecked, click OK/Apply/OK.

Tufenuf