Fade effect (transition effect for menus and tooltips) turns itself on?!?

[Guest Joergen Bech]

I am running XP Professional SP3.

 

Have a weird problem which has been bugging me for a while:

 

After my machine has been turned on for a while, the "Fade effect"

suddenly turns itself on and I have to go into Display Properties ->

Appearance -> Effects and turn it off again. Note that the

"Use the following transition effect ..." box has a greyed checkmark

in it rather than a black/white one, which suggests to me that

something is temporarily overriding my off setting rather than

setting it permanently.

 

My Performance Options -> Visual Effects is set to "Adjust for

best performance" and I have checked (I think) all the related

Registry entries for anything out of the ordinary.

 

I have pruned the process list with AutoRuns.exe (SysInternals)

and cannot think of anything in the process list that could behave

this way.

 

No viruses either, as far as I am aware of.

 

Very, very annoying. Any ideas?

 

TIA,

 

Joergen Bech

[Guest Joergen Bech]

Re: Fade effect (transition effect for menus and tooltips) turns itself on?!?

 

 

Never mind.

 

I noticed that it happens when I start either of two programs

named SaviHost or VSTHost - no matter what plugins I am

using, so I guess it is the host programs themselves which

are affecting this setting. I have switched to another VSTi

host now and the problem has gone away.

 

/Joergen Bech

 

 

 

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:28:31 +0200, Joergen Bech

<jbech<NOSPAM>@<NOSPAM>post1.tele.dk> wrote:

>

>I am running XP Professional SP3.

>

>Have a weird problem which has been bugging me for a while:

>

>After my machine has been turned on for a while, the "Fade effect"

>suddenly turns itself on and I have to go into Display Properties ->

>Appearance -> Effects and turn it off again. Note that the

>"Use the following transition effect ..." box has a greyed checkmark

>in it rather than a black/white one, which suggests to me that

>something is temporarily overriding my off setting rather than

>setting it permanently.

>

>My Performance Options -> Visual Effects is set to "Adjust for

>best performance" and I have checked (I think) all the related

>Registry entries for anything out of the ordinary.

>

>I have pruned the process list with AutoRuns.exe (SysInternals)

>and cannot think of anything in the process list that could behave

>this way.

>

>No viruses either, as far as I am aware of.

>

>Very, very annoying. Any ideas?

>

>TIA,

>

>Joergen Bech

>

>