Others here have said it's not a Vista problem. However, I never ran into
this problem before Vista so I wonder. However, I have had this problem
numerous times with whole drop-down menus that refuse to go away.
Eventually, they will, but in the meantime they're annoying.
David
"Jacob Sorensen" wrote:
> 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?