Wednesday 26 June 2013

Windows context menu fragments left on desktop

Selected Item in Context Menu stays visible forever. I right click, up pops the context menu, I select a menu item, the context menu disappears, but leaves the selected menu item permanently visible on top of all other desktop windows. Annoying!! I've had this occur a lot in XP and now Win7 too. Finally I find a solution.. Kill the Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) in the task manager. It will restart itself and the zombified menu item will disappear.

UPDATE: 

    Alternatively, and much safer.. Set the desktop bit depth to a different bit depth (16bit), then select NO when asked to keep the setting. The screen gets refreshed, orphan elements disappear. Simple and effective.

UPDATE:

..but not permanent.

Maybe more luck with this..


Nope, fragments just reappear soon enough. Grr..


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