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Taskbar Slow To Respond When Desktop Wakes

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Knightmare:
It doesn't seem to be :confused:

Shane:
OK so the system isnt going into sleep mode at all, so windows and all the programs stay running, yet when the screen goes off and comes back on the taskbar is all screwy.

I do know that windows 7 uses the video card to do a lot of the drawing of the taskbar and aero and all that. So it uses the GPU, which is faster.

So when the screen goes off Windows is turning it off it must be simply killing the screen by the video card, the monitor doesnt detect a signal any more so goes into standby mode.

Which since the taskbar, which is draw by the video card is messing up then it looks like it is either a video driver problem, or a problem with the video card itself. But if it was a bad video card then a lot more things would be messing up, so first thing I think you should try is completely removing all traces of the video driver and then installing the newest ones :wink:

Shane

Knightmare:
Thanks! I have actually done this many time. I use NVIDIA and have the latest driver. Could it be that there is another version that might be more compatible with my system? I do get confused on which features (?) to install. It gives me options to install some 3D driver or something, but I don't have anything that is 3D. Should I just install all of the features to the driver, even if I don't use them?

Shane:
The trick is, is to remove every trace of the driver and settings for it so you get a fresh start and there isnt anything left over that might be causing it. After you remove it all you reboot to finish it and then install the drivers fresh, and just have it install the defaults of what it wants.

Shane

Knightmare:
Thanks for the help! I did end up fixing the problem. Turns out another program called Video Genie was not agreeing with NVIDIA. I just uninstalled the program and the problem is solve. :artist:

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