Taskbar and Title Bar turn white

[originaljgf]

Randomly, though it seems more frequently when using a browser, the Taskbar will turn solid white, with only the start button and clock visible. I can move the cursor over the bar, not clicking on anything, just move it across the bar, and the icons will reappear as it passes over them, though the remainder of the bar stays white. On occasion the Title Bar also turns white (never by itself, only when the Taskbar turns white), moving the cursor over it has no effect, though clicking where the minimize, maximize, or exit buttons should be activates those functions.

I can give the three-finger-salute, then cancel the blue menu screen when it appears, and all is back to normal; though in a few minutes, or hours, there's a white Taskbar again. This anomaly doesn't seem to affect any functionality, but it is definitely a distraction and an irritant.

I have updated the vid drivers and played around with settings with no discernible improvement. Am using classic style, no Aero.

 

[Megahertz07]

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use and ask if you want to schedule to next start = yes
Restart
Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks, bad clusters, bad sectors etc

Back to Windows, open a CMD window as administrator and type:
sfc /scannow

If it finds any corrupted files, fixing or not, reboot and run again

 

[originaljgf]

This system is on its fourth power supply, third vid card (ATi and nVidia), second cpu, and second OS (in fact the only original components are the case, mobo, RAM, and primary HD). This issue has been present to some degree the entire time.

A game installed a while ago had an odd issue with the start button, system tray icons, and desktop icons constantly flickering on the game screen (whether a "hole" was appearing in the game or the icons were appearing over the game was unknown); I feel the issues are related. (The only way to play the game without this irritant was to hide the desktop icons and hide the taskbar.)