Little graphic glitches that are getting on my nerves.

[McGooTheWise]

Sometimes when my computer is running a little sluggish due to a program, I will go down to the taskbar, right click, and click "Close." easy fix, right? Wrong. After the program closes I am left with the "Close" button still lit up in the pace I clicked it. I wait a couple minutes, maybe refresh my screen, even restart my LCD, nothing works. I'm getting a new video card, I'm wondering, could this be a glitch with the one I have?

Also, I'm also having a problem where if I start up my computer after having it off for more than 30 minutes, it will freeze. I don't have any viruses on it (That I am aware of, being that I ran 40 different virus scanners, then they found nothing, so I deleted all but 3.) and the only reason I can think of that it would freeze like that is because the computer isn't warming up, or maybe I need more ram. I would just like an educated opinion on this.

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See it frozen in there?

 

[Ridge]

See, this is a situation where specs would be helpful..

 

[Asus]

Most likely your hardware (graphics card) is fine. Probably a windows or program issue.

Windows should refresh the toolbar after a program closes so it does not show up. Either windows is being slow for no good reason or the program wasn't responding to let windows know it actually closed. Try reinstalling the program?

As far as the freezing goes, your PC doesn't need to warm up. What program icons are in your tray and what are showing up in the list when you crl+alt+delete? Prt Scr button will take a screen shot. Paste in a paint program and upload the picture to imageshack website or photobucket.

 

[McGooTheWise]

Most likely your hardware (graphics card) is fine. Probably a windows or program issue.

Windows should refresh the toolbar after a program closes so it does not show up. Either windows is being slow for no good reason or the program wasn't responding to let windows know it actually closed. Try reinstalling the program?

As far as the freezing goes, your PC doesn't need to warm up. What program icons are in your tray and what are showing up in the list when you crl+alt+delete? Prt Scr button will take a screen shot. Paste in a paint program and upload the picture to imageshack website or photobucket.

Do you mean applications, or processes?

And here are my specs, though I don't know if it'll be useful.

Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 3400 Mhz
2 logical processors
1 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
RDTSC: Supported
CMOV: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE: Supported
SSE2: Supported
3DNOW: Unsupported

Windows Version:
Windows XP (32 bit)
NTFS: Supported

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
DirectX Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.11.6371
DirectX Driver Version: 6.14.11.6371
Driver Date: 17 Sept 2007
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 70 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x391
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1024 x 768
Desktop Resolution: 1024 x 768
Primary Display Size: 16.77" x 12.60" (20.94" diag)
42.6cm x 32.0cm (53.2cm diag)
Primary Display Type: DFP
Primary Bus: PCI Express 8x
Primary AGP GART Not Detected
Primary VRAM: 256 MB
Primary Monitor Vendor: Sceptre
Primary Monitor Model: Sceptre X24WG
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x

Sound card:
Audio device: SB X-Fi Audio [AF00]

Memory:
RAM: 2047 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Microphone: Not set
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 305234 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 210762 Mb
OS Install Date: Apr 12 2007
Installed Packages: Firefox,Windows Firewall

Also, forgot to mention, sometimes my computer will start skipping frames about every second and a half. (I know. It's happened so many times that I know exactly how long it is between each.) Sometimes it skips sound clips, sometimes it doesn't. most of the time it happens after I load something.