That's not a Vista issue. I have seen it with other versions of Vista on my
own computers.
And, coincidentally, just today I saw that happen on a Windows 2000 machine
at my office.
I don't know the cause, though.
"Jacob Sorensen" <Jacob
Sorensen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Something odd just happened on my Windows Vista Premium machine. I was
> using
> Windows Movie Maker and instructed it to publish a movie I had just made,
> and
> it crashed (would not respond). After closing it, I discovered something
> wrong: every time I select an item from a menu in Windows or an
> application
> now, the selected menu item stays on screen after it's been selected.
>
> I have two example pictures (my screen resolution is 1440x900):
>
> This one shows the persistent menu item created when I right-clicked
> "Computer" and selected "Open":
> http://www.borfaxer.com/PersistentMenuItemOrigin.jpg
>
> This one shows the item "Open" remaining even after I've selected it:
> http://www.borfaxer.com/PersistentMenuItem.jpg
>
> It remains on the screen, displaying on top of applications I open or move
> over it. If I start Windows Media Center, the menu item disappears from
> the
> screen just before Media Center is displayed.
>
> Does anyone have a good idea what's wrong, and how I can fix this annoying
> problem?