Hello
About a month ago, i noticed that my icons were not displaying properly, they had bits missing. The cursor also looked strange, with what looks like a bar code across it.
I rebooted and noticed purple vertical lines on my monitor as i booted up. When I ALT-TAB you cannot tell which application is which as the the icons have disappeared. Icons in the system tray and shortcut bar (bottom left of screen) are also corrupted. Sometimes when i hover the cursor over them, they appear in full again.
The screen looks normal in some situations, for example the picture i have as wallpaper looks normal. when i stream videos online, they are fine.
I am running windows XP
From memory, this happened just after downloading some microsoft updates. But there is nothing on their site to help. Strangely i installed service pack 3 the other day, and the screen looked normal again, my celebrations were short lived though as next day, the problems were back.
My monitor is not the problem as ive connected it to a laptop and it works fine
Any help will be much appreciated!
My feeling is that it is some sort of driver problem, which are now in conflict with windows XP since the updates.