Hello, I have a strange problem which is driving me nuts.
Often when my T61P (Windows XP) locks itself after a period of inactivity, I come back to the PC and see the screen flashing at the login prompt. When I login, the desktop icons are all jumping slightly and flashing approx 2 times a second. When I look at running processes, I can see that Windows Explorer is using 30% of the CPU, and is the most active process. I can not click on any of the applications in the Windows Explorer task bar, but I can switch to applications using Alt-Tab. My only workaround is to kill the explorer process, and then run explorer to get things back to working again. I can not find what it is that I have done which would make explorer go nuts like this. I really do not have much installed other than generic office style applications, and I have not installed any new applications recently. Lotus Notes 8 Internet Explorer 7 Microsoft Office 2007 Nokia PC Suite Microsoft Office Communcator Some of my colleagues have reported that I am going nuts, as they can see my PC flashing within Office Communicator as being active/away/active/away approx twice per second! I do not think that Office Communicator is the cause though, as killing explorer stops it... I can leave Office Communicator alone and it is happy once Explorer has been killed and restarted. Also, there has been no changes to the Office Communicator settings or software for many many months. I have no evidence, but I feel that one of the Lenovo system updates I installed a few weeks may have been the trigger for this. I have told the power manager to not turn off the screen, so hopefully that rules one thing out - it really appears to only happen once the PC has locked itself after 15 minutes of inactivity. Has anyone else seen this, and does anyone please have any suggestions? Thanks very much. Rgds, Antony - Canberra, Australia _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
