I've had this incredibly annoying blank window that flashes on my taskbar once and disappears, every 15 minutes or so. I've ran Ad-aware and Spy Sweeper and Crap Cleaner all to no avail, so I was wondering if anyone knew what this was or how to get rid of it. This is a constant disturbance and it's making my system slow down. Thanks

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I've been having the same problem with a blank taskbar window popping up every 10-15 minutes. It appears for a only a moment and disappears, taking the focus away from everything I have open. I couldn't find any info online initially, until I narrowed down what was going on with Process Explorer (sysinternals.com). I sat and waited for it to pop up, keeping my eye on the processes in Services.exe. The window popping up is "hptskmgr.exe" (hptskmgr.exe is a process associated with the Task Management Component included in the coretech software from HP). I found these pages with descriptions and user opinions: http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/p... http://www.file.net/process/hptskmg... Read those pages and decide for yourself what is the best solution. It apparently can be removed with no problems, I haven't tried yet. Hope this information helps you out.