Webpage keeps flickering and disappearing.
jsmith99
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Toshiba laptop, Windows 7, IE8.
Every so often, the webpage I'm looking at will flicker on and off, and my desktop will appear. However, there's an addition to the desktop - a small rectangle in the centre, showing two thumbnails, one of the desktop, and one of the webpage. A 'heading' in the rectangle says "desktop".
After a spot of googling, I thought it might be the "peek at desktop" tool, so I went to the 'show desktop' rectangle at bottom right, right-clicked and unticked "peek at desktop".
However, it's still happening, and it's extremely annoying. And the cursor is usually somewhere around the centre of the screen when it happens.
Any advice?
Every so often, the webpage I'm looking at will flicker on and off, and my desktop will appear. However, there's an addition to the desktop - a small rectangle in the centre, showing two thumbnails, one of the desktop, and one of the webpage. A 'heading' in the rectangle says "desktop".
After a spot of googling, I thought it might be the "peek at desktop" tool, so I went to the 'show desktop' rectangle at bottom right, right-clicked and unticked "peek at desktop".
However, it's still happening, and it's extremely annoying. And the cursor is usually somewhere around the centre of the screen when it happens.
Any advice?
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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-steps-repair-internet-explorer-8-boom/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318378
I recommend Chrome or Firefox.
I then dowloaded and opened Firefox; a few things I didn't like:
1) I have a lot of folders in Favourites; I could see only the first half of them.
2) FF put one of my Favourites,and then a few of its own, into the equivalent of IE8's Favourites Bar. I deleted the ones I didn't want, but couldn't see how to move others in.
3) I have IE8 set to 150% zoom. With FF I had to zoom in to every page.
And I still got the webpage flicker - so presumably it's something from Windows 7.
(I've left FF installed, but gone back to IE8).
After googling, I wondered if it had anything yo do with Aero, since I was using an Aero theme for the desktop. So I moved to a plain blue one.
Now I get a blue box telling me the name of the website I have open! clicking on the box takes me back to the webpage, but I'm getting a bit fed up with it.
I have 'Aero peek' turned off, but it still operates if I press Alt/Tab.
Having read a number of webpages which say that you turn Aero off by going into screen settings and selecting a non-Aero theme, I've now got the Windows Basic screen. So now instead of a narrow box with thumbnails of my desktop and the webpage I'm on, I get a large blue box which gives (while I'm in DS) the thread title.
Where on earth have "Troubleshooting" and "Device drivers" disappeared to?
However, I think it's a Windows problem rather than IE.
I use the mouse wheel to scroll up and down a page. I noticed that if I applied the slightest bit of pressure downwards (as opposed to the down direction, if you follow) then the webpage disappeared and the blue box appeared.
Looking at my microsoft mouse settings, I found that the wheel was set to 'flip', whatever that is. A bit more research, and I found that it meant being able to see all the open windows.
I've no idea when or how it got set to that, but I've changed it to 'Page Down'. And I now can't replicate the problem.
You may be better off with a couple of bugs than having an unsecure browser.
IE 9 was released in 2011 so I'm sure by now most bugs should be sorted out.
Have fun with the ten thousand hackers you have with IE8 then. I hope you don't do online banking.