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Feedback to Wednesday 6th June 2006 Windows XP Explorer refresh issue

Camp Pope Bookshop> I purchased an HP xw4400 workstation with XP Pro last month and I have this flicker problem in Outlook Express and Windows Explorer. Haven't found a cure yet.
Mickyj>Thanks for your feedback.

Is it in the Outlook preview pane or across the folder structure ?

Is this machine a member of a network ?

Is this XP Pro XP2 ?

Mickyj>Clark has tried different screen resolutions, installing all service packs, updating the video driver, registry hacks ala Kelly, tweaking IE settings, tweaking folder settings, tweaking performance settings, tweaking tweakui settings, tweaking services, scanning for viruses and spyware, changing the monitor settings, he restored the monitoring settings to factory default. His system is a brand new Hewlett Packard xw4400 workstation with a Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, and an Nvidia Quadro FX560 PCIe video card, running XP Pro.

He has noticed the problem only in Outlook Express, Windows Explorer, Excel, Access, and MS Works.

In Windows Explorer it only happens when using folder view (two panes showing lists of folders and files). If he has several programs running, one of which is OE. He hears the email notification, so he makes OE the active window. After about 4 or 5 seconds some part of the left or right pane will flicker. Not the whole pane. Sometimes the top 1/3, sometimes a few in the middle, sometimes some at the bottom. Sometimes it's in the other pane, again not the whole thing.

In Explorer, it's the same thing, a few files and/or folders in one pane or the other.

In Excel, Access, and Works Database he get it in any list view .

it appears to be any application that displays a list.

And it only happens once when he first makes the application the active window.

to another application, then come back. It could be that the whole list is refreshing and I only see part of it since it's so fast. It's very annoying.

Clark did some experimenting to isolate the problem. He tied the obvious and hooked up a different LCD monitor. Same problem. So it's not the monitor. And it's not the DVI cable, as the other monitor only had an analog input. He tried starting the computer in safe mode, without networking. There was no perceivable problem. br>
Clark disabled all startup programs in msconfig. With all startup programs disabled, the problem went away. br>
Finally we have some suggestions and Clark may have his answer. It looks like Intellitype / intellipoint from Microsoft.br>
From feedback from Les Conner, Susan Bradley and Grey Lancaster (All MVP's), for the other people expeariancing this, It can be mapped drives on the network and possibly, not likely, a setting in the green power saving in the Bios.

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