Computer minimizes everything on the hour

[Ehack87]

Every hour, on the hour, everything is minimized. Simply put it "shows desktop" every hour. This is madly annoying and I can't find a fix. It has always done this from what I can remember (2-3 months old). I'm using Windows XP.

Also, the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon is stuck on, on my system tray. The only device in it is my hard drive. This has also been there the whole time.

Are these two issues related? Anyone know a fix for eaither?

 

[cgskal]

Wow, i have never heard of either of those things! I will check some things and come back to modify my post here. I am also curious to see what anyone else here has to say on this.

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: Ehack87
Also, the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon is stuck on, on my system tray. The only device in it is my hard drive. This has also been there the whole time.

Anyone know a fix for eaither?

This is an Nvidia "thing". As far as I know there is no "cure". It sees your HD as a removable device. SATA drive, right?

 

[robisbell]

i would go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com and have it fully scan all files and drives. then I would run CCleaner and run both the cleaner and registry option till you can run them both without any errors.

 

[Ehack87]

Yep. I read a little about and the only fix was to rollback the drivers...which I have no previous drivers to rollback to =/

 

[Quiksilver]

Originally posted by: Ehack87
Also, the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon is stuck on, on my system tray. The only device in it is my hard drive. This has also been there the whole time.

This is native with Windows I believe, happens when you have an USB keyboard or mouse or SATA hard drives or peripherals.

I don't know of any way to make this just go away, so I just customize my tray notifications and tell it to always hide the safely remove hardware icon.


I don't know about your issue.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Is the show desktop a scheduled task by any chance? Do you have anything scheduled for 1 time per hr?

 

[Ehack87]

Nope, checked that plenty of times =/

 

[robisbell]

i would go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com and have it fully scan all files and drives. then I would run CCleaner and run both the cleaner and registry option till you can run them both without any errors.

 

[Ehack87]

Not a thing

 

[robisbell]

what do you mean not a thing?

 

[Quiksilver]

He means it found nothing.