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re: Problem with Alt-Tab task switcher
Monday, July 7, 2008 at 4:38 am
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed Graham
(4 messages posted)
Thanks very much for the response, Apple; apologies for the delay in replying. I
think you must be right when you say that something is interfering with or refreshing
the screen; I've now seen that tool-tips and other fly-outs are similarly disappearing
after a split second, so it looks like something low-level has been affected, although
I can't think how.
I took your advice and disabled all non-Microsoft services on start-up ... but sadly
the ALT-Tab problem is still there when I open a few applications. I also noticed
a message from msconfig (when I was disabling the services, before the reboot) that
said "Access denied", telling me I didn't have the requisite system privileges for
one of the services, even though I am an Administrator; when looking back through
the list of services, however, all were unchecked (and none of them appeared to run),
so I'm not sure what I was denied access to ... is it starting to sound like malware
of some kind?
Any further advice gratefully received, and thanks again for your response.
Cheers,
Ed
On Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 2:12 pm, appleoddity wrote:
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>Hi Ed.. I somewhat suspect that something is "accessing" the screen or updating
the
>screen in such a way that it is causing all this stuff to disappear on you. If
you
>have it setup to hide inactive icons on the taskbar, do they also give you trouble
>appearing?
>
>Have you tried disabling all un-necessary services and software temporarily with
>msconfig? This might narrow it down for you.
>
>In case you need the information, you can click start -> run -> type 'msconfig',
>click the 'services' tab, select "hide all microsoft services", click 'disable all',
>click the 'startup' tab, click 'disable all,' click 'OK' and reboot.
>
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