Hello all, My system (Win XP Pro SP2) has a strange and annoying problem that I'm still unable to solve. After some hours of use, a sudden corruption happens: 1) Icons in my system tray disappear, when I move the mouse over there they re-appear.. 2) same thing happens to the taskbar application buttons and toolbars 3) The right-click menus and submenus appear black at first, when I move the mouse over the list the choices re-appear in normal white background 4) Desktop icons may turn to the default windows icon, or sometimes they turn back to their normal ones 5) A 16-bit dictionary application that I have can not be run when this problem happens, it displays a message of LOW SYSTEM RESOURCES 6) pressing the win+F (which normally brings up the Search Files window) makes the explorer to crash and re-run As a temporary solution I bring up the task manager and close Explorer.exe, then re-run it. All the above symptoms temporarily disappear except for #5, so I guess the system resources still remain low for some reason. Rebooting fixes it all, for some hours at least. I'm using Norton Antivirus 2006, Sygate Firewall, I've run several anti-spyware tools but the system seems to be clean. I was hoping upgrading to 2GB RAM would solve the problem, but I still have it here. Otherwise the system works smoothly. Any good ideas would be really appreciated, thank you!

this might help>>>>>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817472

this url concerns "IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors occur".. that's not the problem

A video card that is going bad. Try swapping it out. Larry Today seems like a good day to chew through the restraints.

I recently got a new video card as well, it didn't fix the problem.. besides, restarting explorer.exe fixes the problem temporarily/partially.

I found out that this problem was caused whenever the power-save function that turns the monitor off was activated. I've never met this problem again since I disabled the "turn off monitor" power-save function. Still though, why would this happen? If anyone knows any real solution I'd like to know 'cause it simply shouldn't be like this.

some older monitors power-save and hibernate functions don't play nice with XP which could be the reason why turning it off helped. There are also a couple of other things you can try if this is not the problem. Try shutting down, restart in safe mode, then do a normal shut down restart. There is also a webpage that has a repair tool you can use http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm -hope this helps.