Lately i have been getting parts of drop down menu's staying on screen, even over the top of opened windows, and refreshing doesn't get rid of them. Its not any program in particular, just drop downs in programs and from system tray. I am using Nvidia display driver 81.98 and system is stable till this started happening, getting the occasional freeze, but no blue screens. Any body else had this problem??

Is the system freezing for more than a few seconds, or are we talking about a freeze of a second or two? Also, are you seeing any moments where CPU is pegged (80% or higher) for more than a second or two?

I'll suggest the usual - let's get some perfmon data during the times it's happening and review for possible clues.

Freeze only for 1 sec , but drop down stays there till i reboot, and it has been random, sometimes it doesn't appear for days, and then it might occour continously in a day. This used to happen in the beta ver of x64 win, and also in the evaluation ver too, and that was on my old machine. Surely this has been seen by MS??
I am going to re-install windows anyway, just to get rid of some spyware that i cant get rid of, and maybe causing this problem. thanx for your help.

If you uninstall your video driver, and just use the standard VGA driver, does the problem go away?

Funny thing happened yesterday, windows update downloaded some updates, and after reboot, all is good, no more drop downs staying on screen. Windows sure is weird, i prefer linux, purely because i am a control freak!

um on the topic video i have a, nvidia 7600gs, msi k9n sli platium, amd am2 x2 4200+ x64, xp x64 and a gig of ram ... any way when i star up any game ex. cod2, bf2, bf2142, aoe3, hl2, fear so when i start up the game it wont show up right there would be green lines going down the screen so any one know whats going on i have the right driver for my card installed and my desktop shows fine so i have no other place to turn for help