Menu artifacts on screen windows 7

CarlWalsh sorry, i rebooted after i posted this message. The F5 key does a refresh too. AndrewMorton I've tried right-click Refresh and F5, and neither of those works for me. Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Add a comment. I occasionally get screen artifacts like this in Windows 8. I locked my computer and unlocked it , which removed the artifact. Edit: I don't know why, but just using Chrome for a few seconds also removes the artifacts. Carl Walsh Carl Walsh 2 2 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges.

So i logged off which has the same disadvantage as restarting in that all open programs get closed, i. To clarify, i would prefer some simple way to make to artifact vanish; given that the artifact even sits on top of the locked screen, there's an image somewhere that needs to be erased. I just had this issue, locking the computer made no difference, but the resolution tweak in the accepted answer worked for me.

Andre Andre 21 2 2 bronze badges. This is the only one here that worked for me, except on my Surface Pro's Monitor tab I can't change the colour depth, but I can change the refresh rate between 59 and 50 Hz. Changing resolution does not clear artifacts, but changing refresh rate does! I have a similar hardware setup and was getting annoying artifacts when swapping between similar windows like SSMS and Visual Studio.

Changing from 32 bit to 16 bit colour has done the trick with no noticeable reduction in quality. Alas, it's just struck again and it wasn't even similar windows Visual Studio getting mashed up with Brave browser : — Jon. I say Reinstate Monica I say Reinstate Monica 24k 18 18 gold badges 90 90 silver badges bronze badges. Chuck Chuck 3 3 bronze badges. Tom G11 Tom G11 2 2 gold badges 6 6 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. For me, changing resolution has never worked except rearrange my windows and desktop.

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Related 3. Is this only right clicks in Firefox, or right clicks in all of Windows? If the latter, I've seen it before, and it's either an issue with your graphics driver, or with Windows itself.

Try updating your graphics driver Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL. These are right clicks in Firefox only. All other apps are behaving normally.

I just updated my graphics drivers and will try a roll back. Attaching a pic This just started to happen in last couple months. Tried restoring to earlier conf Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question