Funny menu

September 16, 2008

I have a curious thing that happens from time to time with my start menu,

and I cannot figure out what is causing it. Every so often, when I click on

the Start button, the menu pops up, but is doubled. What I mean is, it's

like it's there twice, one in the normal position, and an exact copy above

it on the screen. Both appear equally "solid", and the shortcuts on both

seem to work the same. I have checked the actual menus in Windows Explorer,

and everything there is OK. If I reboot, or set the menu to "Classic" and

then back to the XP style, it all comes right again. I've used XP for

several years, and never seen anything like this. Everything works OK, the

machine is a responsive and reliable as ever, and nothing I can see is doing

this. The desktop is the standard XP theme, with just a plain blue

background. This is a working machine, so I don't use it for testing,

experimenting, or generally do anything that could compromise its

reliability.

Just one thing - I have a mania as the only user, for placing my entire menu

in my user folder. There are no menu items in the All users folder. Can't

see how that could do this, and I've organised my menus like that for years

without difficulty. It's not a security or performance issue, but if anyone

can offer any ideas I would be most interested.

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Peter in New Zealand. (Email address is fake)

Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and

compulsive computer fiddler.

September 16, 2008

Re: Funny menu

"Peter in New Zealand" <peterbalplug@extra.co.nz> wrote in message

news:gan1fm$2cq$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...

>I have a curious thing that happens from time to time with my start menu,

>and I cannot figure out what is causing it. Every so often, when I click on

>the Start button, the menu pops up, but is doubled. What I mean is, it's

>like it's there twice, one in the normal position, and an exact copy above

>it on the screen. Both appear equally "solid", and the shortcuts on both

>seem to work the same. I have checked the actual menus in Windows Explorer,

>and everything there is OK. If I reboot, or set the menu to "Classic" and

>then back to the XP style, it all comes right again. I've used XP for

>several years, and never seen anything like this. Everything works OK, the

>machine is a responsive and reliable as ever, and nothing I can see is

>doing this. The desktop is the standard XP theme, with just a plain blue

>background. This is a working machine, so I don't use it for testing,

>experimenting, or generally do anything that could compromise its

>reliability.

>

> Just one thing - I have a mania as the only user, for placing my entire

> menu in my user folder. There are no menu items in the All users folder.

> Can't see how that could do this, and I've organised my menus like that

> for years without difficulty. It's not a security or performance issue,

> but if anyone can offer any ideas I would be most interested.

>

> --

> Peter in New Zealand. (Email address is fake)

> Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and

> compulsive computer fiddler.

I haven't seen this sort of thing either. Next time it happens you should

right-click each shortcut belonging to a pair, then click "Properties", then

click the "General" tab. Do you get two identical frames? Note: You don't

need to close one frame before moving on to the next - you can have both

frames open at the same time.

September 16, 2008

Re: Funny menu

Have you checked for a possible update for your video card?