Occasional black 'remnants' in Windows 8

[DaveJ]

After waiting a year for all the updates, everything on my Windows 8 laptop is working pretty flawlessly, finally, except for one last thing. These occasionally blocks on the screen where Windows seems to forget to fill in.

Sometimes it is the top of the screen where the browser tab is. Sometimes the windows logo in the lower left hand corner shows through when i have an app open. It's not critical problem, just a little annoying.

It's an Asus touchscreen laptop. Is it a matter of adjusting video settings, and if so does anyone know what/where they are? Or is it something I just need to accept?

[marble falls]

1. Happens on my Toshiba, too. I hate Microsoft. I hate Windows 8. I think Bill Gates as a Koch brother

[DaveJ]

3. It's always been a problem in Windows

It is weird they never bothered to fix it across the board.

I'm not really on the anti-MS bandwagon. I use a Mac at work and it has problems too when it comes to rebooting... it just won't. I always need to press the power button for 10 seconds if I ever need to restart. The guy next to me, his Mac is locked up almost every morning. My wife has an iPad though and it's great.

[Renew Deal]

2. Could be a video driver

Maybe try updating it if possible. If Asus doesn't have a newer driver, the manufacturer of the video card might. You could also try uninstalling the driver and using Windows native driver.

[DaveJ]

4. Gave it a shot

It doesn't happen often enough that I'll know immediately. I thought there might be a common setting somewhere but of course updating the driver should have been my first step. Thanks.

[jtuck004]

5. I too would look at the video driver first, either a newer or older one.

I also googled "aero settings windows 8" because that transparency you describe is kind of like what was available in Win 7, removed in 8.

However, there are ways to enable a sort of transparency and some of the other things by working with contrasts and themes - you might do a little exploring and reading just to make sure it isn't something along that line.

It really does sound like an inability to drive the hardware correctly, however, or perhaps not enough memory (or the wrong kind, other reasons...) to display properly, either video memory or RAM.

[DaveJ]

6. Ok I'll look at the Aero settings if it happens again

It's been fine since the driver update, but really it hadn't happened much before. The problem really was very minor. Windows 8 has been working so well lately, it was just one last thing that wasn't perfect.