Small but unusual problem

emoska · 01-07-2009, 10:17 PM

Hello everyone :-)

Hope you all had a great Christmas and new year.

I've had an unusual problem surface on my computer in the last week, which seems small - but is very irritation. Let's see if I can explain it accurately...

From time to time, when I'm interacting (e.g., typing or clicking) with a program (e.g., MS Word, internet browser), the program becomes 'unselected'. Everything is as it was, but the border of the program becomes pale - much like when another program window opens in the foreground (e.g., like an error message). And if I'm doing something like typing, I have to re-click on the screen to select the window before continuing typing. In this case however, there is no error message. It has happened twice already during this post!

Obviously this is not a HUGE problem, but thoroughly frustrating. I only post here because my computer was infected with a Trojan recently, and while removed, I thought that the current problem may be related.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help you can come up with :-)

-Emoska

01-07-2009, 10:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
emoska Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 19 OS: windows XP	Small but unusual problem Hello everyone :-) Hope you all had a great Christmas and new year. I've had an unusual problem surface on my computer in the last week, which seems small - but is very irritation. Let's see if I can explain it accurately... From time to time, when I'm interacting (e.g., typing or clicking) with a program (e.g., MS Word, internet browser), the program becomes 'unselected'. Everything is as it was, but the border of the program becomes pale - much like when another program window opens in the foreground (e.g., like an error message). And if I'm doing something like typing, I have to re-click on the screen to select the window before continuing typing. In this case however, there is no error message. It has happened twice already during this post! Obviously this is not a HUGE problem, but thoroughly frustrating. I only post here because my computer was infected with a Trojan recently, and while removed, I thought that the current problem may be related. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help you can come up with :-) -Emoska