Disappearing box

[Stilgar]

Anybody seen this. Using Win98 se. After g@h has been running for awhile the g@h box in the taskbar disappears. I can make it reappear just by clicking on the taskbar. Or trying to run it again, when the already running question turns up I just say no and it shows up also. First time I saw it I thought it had stopped and tried starting again.

[siggy]

I am running windows ME and I can honestly say this has never happened.

[zhotfire]

That's weird Stilgar... i've got 10 clients running under 98se and have never seen that! Just how far is the machine in question being pushed? You might have a corrupt system file.... :(

[Stilgar]

This is my son-in-laws machine. Right now not overclocked. I'm in the process of talking him in to it. No errors turn up and g@h is running along good. Almost like it was stealthed. But it will show up at a ctrl-alt-del.

[zhotfire]

There must be something installed that's causing a minor glitch. The first app that came out to hide the client window gave me some problems so i stopped using it. There were some similar snafus involving the taskbar with it.... At least it's not causing any BSOD's or "invalid page faults"! :D

[siggy]

I just wanted to say I think this is the 1st tread I have found that Dnar has not posted in.

[Stilgar]

Originally posted by siggy
I just wanted to say I think this is the 1st tread I have found that Dnar has not posted in.

Shhh.

[Stilgar]

Originally posted by zhotfire
There must be something installed that's causing a minor glitch. The first app that came out to hide the client window gave me some problems so i stopped using it. There were some similar snafus involving the taskbar with it.... At least it's not causing any BSOD's or "invalid page faults"! :D

Well, had it over again for a while to add a dvd player and work on a few things. For what ever reason it has stopped doing it. At least while it was here. I'm not sure what happened. From talking to him no real changes made.

[zhotfire]

Well, with 5 years of windows experience under my belt.... that sounds just about right! :rolleyes:

[Bruce]

Originally posted by Stilgar
This is my son-in-laws machine. Right now not overclocked.

Just a thought: Does he run a wallpaper program called webshots? I ran it for a while and although I couldn't pin anything specific on it, when I stopped, the strange problems also stopped.

[Stilgar]

Originally posted by Bruce


Just a thought: Does he run a wallpaper program called webshots? I ran it for a while and although I couldn't pin anything specific on it, when I stopped, the strange problems also stopped.

Nope, it was a fresh install of win98se. Really just had I.E., outhouse, and a couple small programs. Right now he is having problems seeing some websites. (Website not found) But I can follow right after and go to them no problem on my computer. I have a feeling he is tinkering around and changing all sorts of settings. Found parental lock on I.E. but he did not know he had set it. Have not had a chance to side by side his settings and mine. I have a feeling something may turn up there.

[Dave S]

Originally posted by Stilgar
Anybody seen this. Using Win98 se. After g@h has been running for awhile the g@h box in the taskbar disappears. I can make it reappear just by clicking on the taskbar. Or trying to run it again, when the already running question turns up I just say no and it shows up also. First time I saw it I thought it had stopped and tried starting again.
Hummmm....the only time I seen anything like this happen is when “explorer” crashes and the screen doesn’t refresh/reload correctly but only on an old 98PC:confused: