Cornholio 0 #1 August 23, 2007 At first I thought my laptop had a bad pixel. But then I saw the same pixel on my external monitor. When I put the mouse over it, I see a tiny scrollbar. I tried to get a screen capture of that, but windows print screen only sees the pixel. I remember seeing this before and it was some resident program running that had caused it. After killing the program or rebooting the problem went away. Any ideas? Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cornholio 0 #2 August 23, 2007 hmm.. I found the problem.. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?=&p=256117 QuoteIs it a white pixel? If you creep up on it very slowly does your mouse pointer grow a miniature scroll bar? I thought that I had pixel problems until I realized that it only happens when I'm using the scrolling features of my TrackPad. Whenever I saw it on the screen I would look at what apps were running via Task Mgr and there was always one there called Syn Visual Window. It turned out to be the scrolling TrackPad "pointer" getting hung out on the desktop when used in conjunction with a USB mouse. You can see and trap it with Task Manager Applications and then look for it as a white "stuck" pixel on your dark desktop. I hope that this is all that you're seeing as well. Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erroll 80 #3 August 23, 2007 QuoteAt first I thought my laptop had a bad pixel. But then I saw the same pixel on my external monitor. When I put the mouse over it, I see a tiny scrollbar. I tried to get a screen capture of that, but windows print screen only sees the pixel. I remember seeing this before and it was some resident program running that had caused it. After killing the program or rebooting the problem went away. Any ideas? Did you look at Windows' task manager to see which progams were executing at the time? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cornholio 0 #4 August 23, 2007 yup, then gogled the program's name and "pixel" and a few hits came up. See my previous post, I found the problem. Thanks! Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
