Strange Behaviour - no close, minimize, expand function on startup

Seems to be random. It's happened in IE, Winamp, WLM, and application installers (.msi and others) so far.

minimizing (those that can be minimized) does not help?

Try hitting Win + D (of course, make sure you use the Right key mapped to Windows key ) to minimize all windows, and then bringing it back up and see if it renders correctly - if so, you may have graphics issues....

No worries. Next time it does it, I'll let you know what happens.

Thanks

Screen caps would be helpful - especially if You can get multiple apps opening and show some apps hosed whilst others are not.

Yeah, I'll try do that too

Ok, I have come to the conclusion hat it's totally intermittent.
I just got a dialog in WLM (where it had once or twice previously shown no button text), and the buttons are showing correctly.

Hmmm - then it has to be related to something else....

How are the temps on the machine?

Here's a picture of when it doesn't display button texts.

Machine temperature is average (for a notebook) it seems.
GPU: 52 Celsius
HDD: 35 Celsius
Core 0: 49 Celsius
Core 1: 51 Celsius

Something ain't right.

Also, try to capture some time in the future where you have both text on buttons and no text on buttons - if that never happens, then I'd say it was most likely a hardware issue, but i you get mixed then I'd say it was software....

Oh, is your AV / Windows Defender going absolutely crazy when this happens? Could be that the system forgets to paste button text b/c of HD activity, but the Mac has the mouse at a lower IRQ and thus when you click the button it overrides the HD activity....

Again, I ma taking shots in the dark here - I haven't tried W7 on a Mac yet so I cannot say one way or another wth is really going on here.

There's never a case where there's one button with and one without in a windows.
Windows Defender is turned off, and no other AV is installed. I tend not to run any when testing beta OSes.

To me, it does seem more like a software issue, as I've never had anything similar on OS X, nor when I was running XP Pro SP3 on the same machine.