explorer.exe bug?

I'm currently running Windows Vista, and every so often (it seems to be
randomly) all the windows start flashing, the taskbar moves around, and the
screen blinks. Everything is fixed when I restart explorer.exe, but this
problem keeps happening again and it's really annoying.

Click Start > All Programs > Maintenance > Problem Reports and Solutions >
View Problem History > check for logged error messages related to crash,
right click and it click View Details. Copy the contents here for further
analysis.

Have you updated your video card driver, since the flashing sounds like
something related to your graphics.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Natthew" <Natthew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EAA33877-4054-4CBA-8EF8-EA037908F51F@microsoft.com...
> I'm currently running Windows Vista, and every so often (it seems to be
> randomly) all the windows start flashing, the taskbar moves around, and
> the
> screen blinks. Everything is fixed when I restart explorer.exe, but this
> problem keeps happening again and it's really annoying.

Natthew wrote:
> I'm currently running Windows Vista, and every so often (it seems to be
> randomly) all the windows start flashing, the taskbar moves around, and the
> screen blinks. Everything is fixed when I restart explorer.exe, but this
> problem keeps happening again and it's really annoying.

I noticed this on my old computer, happens randomly except when
attempting to start Catalyst Control Center. Haven't experienced this
with my Nvidia card though...

[guitar_man888]

Originally Posted by Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]

Click Start > All Programs > Maintenance > Problem Reports and Solutions >
View Problem History > check for logged error messages related to crash,
right click and it click View Details. Copy the contents here for further
analysis.

Have you updated your video card driver, since the flashing sounds like
something related to your graphics.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Natthew" <Natthew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EAA33877-4054-4CBA-8EF8-EA037908F51F@microsoft.com...
> I'm currently running Windows Vista, and every so often (it seems to be
> randomly) all the windows start flashing, the taskbar moves around, and
> the
> screen blinks. Everything is fixed when I restart explorer.exe, but this
> problem keeps happening again and it's really annoying.

Yeah I have the exact same problem.. also running vista on an acer aspire 3680. Randomly everything flashes and the only thing you can see is what your mouse is clicked on when the screen re-appears on whatever program i'm on. The explorer sometimes goes to the top of the screen making it impossible to close any programs without running security options and starting task manager. (security options screen does not flash so I doubt it is something to do with my video card.) Once I start task manager, it still flashes and makes it difficult to end explorer.exe and sometimes itunes.exe too when I have this open. My itunes is already set in administartive mode due to previous "pop-up" problems with vista and it sometimes does it without itunes even open.. I went into my history in problem and solutions and nothing is there related to a crash of any kind.. I was hopin for a patch or something to install into vista to fix this but surprisingly im finding that there are few reported issues on this..