Is it a memory leak? Something is wrong with IE7 on Vista x64
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Look at this picture: http://www.davidwulff.co.uk/vista.ie7.problem.jpg[^] Notice how the IE toolbar is misrendering. The page has also selected itself (what you can see anyway) despite the fact the window does not have focus so shouldn't show any selection. and then, of course, there are the big black blocks, and note how the javascript error icon on the status bar is being drawn in the wrong place. The black areas randomly flicker and jump around - one second it might be the status bar and scroll bars that are black, the next it is part of the content window and the title bar, etc. Notice how the title bar in the screenshot is using Vista's basic theme, yet Aero is enabled. I have had this behaviour a couple of times now, and it is always after I have been browsing the web for a few hours. Typically, as in this case, it is because I am browsing an online catalogue to build up a shopping cart. Because I have two monitors, I tend to open most links in a new window so I can compare them side by side across the monitors. I will drag links from a category listing on one monitor to the other window. I have experienced the problem while using various websites, but each time I have been using it exactly as described above. I have not experienced the problem when browsing 'normally' (i.e. typically using tabs in the same window). I am running the 64 bit version of Windows Vista Ultimate. The system has 4GB of RAM, and at the time that screenshot was taken there was approx 1.5GB free. It is IE7, obviously, and my system is showing no updates that need to be installed. The problem appears instantly with no warning, and affects not only the current window but also any other IE7 windows opened from that instance of iexplore.exe*32are. All windows are dead until the process is killed from task manager. I can however spawn a new IE7 process while the dead one is hanging around and it behaves fine. I have no idea what is causing this problem, but it is getting frustrating because I lose my shopping cart and have to start again. Has anyone else seen this problem -- even in your own applications - so you could give me some pointers on where to look for a resolution. Thanks,
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