Anyone else getting this ?
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate). Anyone else seen it?
Very rarely, but I've had it for years on different machines and even different versions of Windows... What usually helps for me is to go back to the program the context menu belongs to and opening the context menu again. I think I've had two or three instances where even that didn't help and restarting the computer was the only option.
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate). Anyone else seen it?
I've been getting that on and off for years
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate). Anyone else seen it?
On & off for a long time (pre-Win10). As someone already said, the best way to get rid of this is to go back to the application that opened the menu, and reopen the menu. Closing the menu usually makes the original disappear.
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On & off for a long time (pre-Win10). As someone already said, the best way to get rid of this is to go back to the application that opened the menu, and reopen the menu. Closing the menu usually makes the original disappear.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate). Anyone else seen it?
This is a possible solution. I've seen similar things and they seem to be related to video card and some of the "Aero" settings. Edit -I used to have tooltips that would hang out even after I left the window giving the tooltip. Here's what you can try. Go to System...Properties...Advanced tab... See this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/fewOz.png[^] (You can right click "This PC" from Explorer and click "Properties" to get to that.) Next you want to choose the first button (Performance) Settings... When you click that button you will see: https://i.stack.imgur.com/1c1Ya.png[^] These are the things that are affecting this. You can take a snapshot of your settings and basically turn them all off and then turn them back on slowly to test. There is a good chance one or more of these will solve your problem. Good luck.
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This is a possible solution. I've seen similar things and they seem to be related to video card and some of the "Aero" settings. Edit -I used to have tooltips that would hang out even after I left the window giving the tooltip. Here's what you can try. Go to System...Properties...Advanced tab... See this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/fewOz.png[^] (You can right click "This PC" from Explorer and click "Properties" to get to that.) Next you want to choose the first button (Performance) Settings... When you click that button you will see: https://i.stack.imgur.com/1c1Ya.png[^] These are the things that are affecting this. You can take a snapshot of your settings and basically turn them all off and then turn them back on slowly to test. There is a good chance one or more of these will solve your problem. Good luck.
Thanks for the tip I'll give it a try. The trouble is that because it is random it will not be easy to figure out when and if it is fixed. But, hey ho, as the great Charles Petzold wrote, "This is Windows, no one said it would be easy". [edit] I just started that and now I have the "Properties" item stuck on the screen. :mad: [/edit]
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate). Anyone else seen it?
I experience this with SSMS and Redgate tools. Their drop downs have a tendency to still stay visible. I just do as Sander said go to the offending app and minimize it or close it. I am using latest version of Windows 10.
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I experience this with SSMS and Redgate tools. Their drop downs have a tendency to still stay visible. I just do as Sander said go to the offending app and minimize it or close it. I am using latest version of Windows 10.
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Thanks for the tip I'll give it a try. The trouble is that because it is random it will not be easy to figure out when and if it is fixed. But, hey ho, as the great Charles Petzold wrote, "This is Windows, no one said it would be easy". [edit] I just started that and now I have the "Properties" item stuck on the screen. :mad: [/edit]
It's painful stuff when Windows fails in these ways. Hey, also I noticed that on that 2nd window (where the performance options checkboxes are)...if you choose the "Adjust for best performance" radio button then it turns all of those options off. That is probably the way to go just to see if it fixes it first. However, I don't know how ugly windows will become at that point. :) Good luck.
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It's painful stuff when Windows fails in these ways. Hey, also I noticed that on that 2nd window (where the performance options checkboxes are)...if you choose the "Adjust for best performance" radio button then it turns all of those options off. That is probably the way to go just to see if it fixes it first. However, I don't know how ugly windows will become at that point. :) Good luck.
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate). Anyone else seen it?
It's rare, but I saw that very thing twice last week.
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This is a possible solution. I've seen similar things and they seem to be related to video card and some of the "Aero" settings. Edit -I used to have tooltips that would hang out even after I left the window giving the tooltip. Here's what you can try. Go to System...Properties...Advanced tab... See this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/fewOz.png[^] (You can right click "This PC" from Explorer and click "Properties" to get to that.) Next you want to choose the first button (Performance) Settings... When you click that button you will see: https://i.stack.imgur.com/1c1Ya.png[^] These are the things that are affecting this. You can take a snapshot of your settings and basically turn them all off and then turn them back on slowly to test. There is a good chance one or more of these will solve your problem. Good luck.
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate). Anyone else seen it?
I see it on occasion with W7 too. I think it has a video driver anomaly. Try updating the drivers for the video card. For me it got to the point it was repeatable and a video driver fixed it.
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate). Anyone else seen it?
I'd say it's probably the video drivers, too. One of my laptops would randomly leave inactive images of pop-ups and even windows on the screen. Removing and re-installing the video drivers fixed it.
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate). Anyone else seen it?
A classic case of bit-rot. Try The Bit Recycler : Toggle Booleans : Internet Archive[^]
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A classic case of bit-rot. Try The Bit Recycler : Toggle Booleans : Internet Archive[^]
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate). Anyone else seen it?
I would also say video drivers are most likely the culprit though poorly-written code may be assisting. Instead of rebooting, try Win+Ctrl+Shift+B to reset the graphics driver. If that resolves it, that's the culprit, IMHO.
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I would also say video drivers are most likely the culprit though poorly-written code may be assisting. Instead of rebooting, try Win+Ctrl+Shift+B to reset the graphics driver. If that resolves it, that's the culprit, IMHO.
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate). Anyone else seen it?
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Thanks for the tip I'll give it a try. The trouble is that because it is random it will not be easy to figure out when and if it is fixed. But, hey ho, as the great Charles Petzold wrote, "This is Windows, no one said it would be easy". [edit] I just started that and now I have the "Properties" item stuck on the screen. :mad: [/edit]
Do you have Automatic Updates turned off? Because my various Windows 10 machines have all sorts of weirdness when there is a Windows Update pending, especially one that wants to restart the machine, and I ignore them for too long. I've seen the issues you are talking about only once on one machine, but on all of them I will experience keyboard and/or mouse weirdness. I used to get frustrated and curse at my machine(s), but now the first thing I do is check Windows update. Restarting and letting it update immediately cures the wonkiness.
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