Strange happenings in Windows 7

As I said, I have a strange 'bug' that is quite annoying.

When I hover over an icon at the bottom, and I go to click on a window from the pop-up screen, as soon as I move my mouse to click on one, the pop-up screen disappears.

Another time I find this is when I click my volume icon on the task bar, when I went to choose the mute volume button, the window disappeared...

Also, some program windows which I had open, started to flash, and say, for example if I was scrolling down through control panel options, every time it flashed, it went back to the top - this was genuinely annoying.

I was wondering if anyone else had come across any of these sort of things.

Please reply if you have had them or something similar, in fact if you've had anything strange happening in Windows 7 at all.

Thanks for reading.

ussj4brolli said:

James Wood said:

As I said, I have a strange 'bug' that is quite annoying.

When I hover over an icon at the bottom, and I go to click on a window from the pop-up screen, as soon as I move my mouse to click on one, the pop-up screen disappears.

Another time I find this is when I click my volume icon on the task bar, when I went to choose the mute volume button, the window disappeared...

Also, some program windows which I had open, started to flash, and say, for example if I was scrolling down through control panel options, every time it flashed, it went back to the top - this was genuinely annoying.

I was wondering if anyone else had come across any of these sort of things.

Please reply if you have had them or something similar, in fact if you've had anything strange happening in Windows 7 at all.

Thanks for reading.

Hmm.... try doing so w/ keyboard unplugged..?

Well, I'm using a laptop... So that would be a little tricky

And it's not my touchpad, as I am using a USB Mouse instead.

Hp Pavillion dv5-1009ea Notebook
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Intel core 2 Duo P8400 (2.3GHz)
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS Graphics card

Its not a Windows "bug" otherwise we'd all be having the same problem.
My guess is you don't have the correct drivers installed for your laptop's touch pad.

Dubya said:

Its not a Windows "bug" otherwise we'd all be having the same problem.
My guess is you don't have the correct drivers installed for your laptop's touch pad.

I've already said I don't use my touchpad, however I did not notice that it is disabled.. So it's nothing to do with that.

Ok this is becoming really annoying now.

I have noticed something else, when I open the start menu, and click on All Programs, then go to open a program folder, the start menu closes instantly....

Also, the windows are still flashing.... The thing with the task bar icons is still happening....

How old is your installation? Has this always happened? Are you overclocking or anything along those lines? Have you tweaked anything? Have you installed any HP drivers for your laptop, or did you let Windows update find and install all of your drivers?