Mysterious Grey Square!

[bradscoolio]

It appears that I have a grey rectangle on my desktop that I can't interact with.
I've fiddled around with my processes & there is no program this is attached to, but when I click on the show desktop button at the bottom right hand corner of my desktop it goes away & then comes back whenever I launch a program.

I added the pictures as attachments attachments.
Please help!

 

[bradscoolio]

Woops! the full screen picture turned out small, but you get the idea

 

[jamesriley94]

May need to do a new picture. Upload to image shack and paste the forum code. It's impossible to see anything on that mate

 

[whosbawss]

I had the same problem ! are you running an ASUS motherboard ? because mine was linked to AI suite !

 

[yassarikhan786]

Does it appear as soon as you log on?

 

[bradscoolio]

It will be there as soon as I login & happens randomly.

I also run a ASUS M5A99x EVO, but I don't have AI suite installed

 

[yassarikhan786]

Have you tried booting in safe mode to see if the problem still persists?

 

[bradscoolio]

it doesn't happen every time i boot

 

[bradscoolio]

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/708/showscreen.png/
here is the link for when i hover over show desktop

 

[yassarikhan786]

So it happens randomly. Open msconfig.exe, disable all of the startup items and reboot. I still suspect it's one of the startup items that is causing the issue even if it does happen randomly.

 

[VengeanceUK]

that is typically the "show desktop" button on windows 7, but no idea whats taking control of it atm
it almost sounds as if its a graphics driver issue

 

[jamesriley94]

that is typically the "show desktop" button on windows 7

Yes... I'm trying to think of anything else it could be besides the obvious...

Cant believe anyone could get 3 years into the life of windows 7 and not know what the show desktop button was...

 

[yassarikhan786]

As vengeance has mentioned it may be related to the graphics drivers. Try updating or rolling back the drivers first.

 

[airdeano]

unlock taskbar, right click taskbar and then toolbars. i'll bet you have a phantom toolbar loading
in the background.

airdeano