Recent content by kalest

Fardringle/elkinm, I have not verified this, but I have read somewhere that it may only be Windows XP SP3 that the problem occurs on, which may be why some people don't see the problem.

I'm surprised at that, since your symptoms appeared to be same as mine. All I can say is I've uninstalled Avira and moved over to AVG and haven't had any problems since, fingers crossed. Can't see how Avira could still be your problem once you uninstalled it. Do an advanced search on...

Just to clarify a little, elkinm is using Avira Antivirus 10 & said "I cannot see icons or text correctly and in a gui pieces are entirely missing" "Also, when I restart, the restart prompt shows the 3 buttons, but the blue background is transparent as it cannot display it" I was...

I had same problem, after scrubbing my hard drive & reinstalling only to find it was still there. Turned out it was Avira Antivirus (free) ver 10 with severe memory leaks. Check out http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&postID=1020322 There are lots of posts in the avira forum on...