Vista - Window Flip Issue -- Strange Icon -- PLEASE HELP!!

Hello, I have a question about Windows Vista Home Premium [service pack 1] and Windows Flip. When flipping (alt-TAB) thru active applications on Windows Vista, there is a strange icon on the left side that really has no information. When selected all other apps have a descriptive name but when this particular icon/app is selected, there is no descriptive name or information. When this icon is selected nothing happens but when any of the other apps are selected, the appropriate function happens. The icon has a white box and in the lower right corner it has a few small boxes (each a different size) close together. One box it white, the other is orange, the other is red, the other is blue and the last is white with a small vertical line. Does anyone know what this is and why it is there? If it is nothing I need and it is not system critical, how do I remove it? Thank you for your help!

Here is the icon I am talking about. It is on the left hand side. When highlighted it has no name and when selected it does nothing.

Hello Onecooltech, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I do not recognize what program that icon is for with that open window, but do you also have a button for it on the taskbar that can be right clicked on and click Close with. If so, then that open window may be offscreen. You might also look in Task Manager to see if you can spot a listed Application or Process that it may belong to and kill it as a test to see if it was. If you kill a proccess that messes things up, then restarting the computer will fix you up.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I tried that and no apps are running and I was able to stop many process and nothing helped. I still have the icon and notthing seems to make it go away. I am starting to think that the flip is coruppt or has issues (do not know if there is anyway to unistall / reinstall the function) ... any other Ideas?

Here is the task manager





Here is an updated flip that goes with the above task manager



Any other ideas?

Did you have a open window button on the taskbar for this as well?

If you restart the computer, is it still there when you use Alt+tab right after the computer finishes starting? If yes, then you might check your startup programs to see if it may be one of them that this is for.

Hmm... I'm sure that I've seen that icon (or something very much like it) somewhere before, but I cannot for the life of me remember where. It seems to ring a bell, though.

Here is more information on the pc: Still no luck on finding out what the icon is or how to remove it.

I installed Office 2007 Enterprise, Skype, Black Berry Desktop, quick time, Avast

I uninstalled Norton, Office 2007 student & home, MS Works, Power Point Viewer 2007,

I disabled on start up HP Total Care Advisor, Windows Defender (SIDE NOTE --What is the thought of removing windows defender all togeather from the PC ... any issues?)

Here is my current sys tray


Here is my current start up apps






Thank you for the help