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From: Bill Bradshaw on 9 Apr 2010 13:17
This is a known problem with IE 8. I will assume you are using WinXP and
the Windows Classic theme. Change your theme from the one you are using to
another one. Start IE. Shut IE down and change your theme back to the one
you want to use. Why Microsoft is unable to solve this black bar issue is
beyond me.
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Steve Giannoni wrote:
> The different "bars" of my Internet Explorer heading are now overlayed
> with a solid black cast making navigation very difficult. All
> functions otherwise appear to be working. Problem does not happen in
> the Safe Mode. Help & advice greatly appreciated & thanks ...


From: Steve Giannoni on 9 Apr 2010 13:19
Removed the NVIDIA driver but the problem persisted when I ran IE
before the NVIDIA re-installed. The system was very persistent on this
apparently using it's own driver ...

On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:06:25 -0400, Steve Giannoni
<casagiannoni(a)optonline.net> wrote:

>Many thanks for all the detailed info. Unfortunately, you're way, WAY
>ahead of me. The system is a Dell Dimension 8200 and I think the video
>is GeForce4 MX 420, running Windows XP home. Not ready yet to dig
>around inside the system. Automatic updates is probably what brought
>me this trouble. Foolish me for expecting a simple solution ...
>
>PS - why does Safe mode cure it ?
>
>On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:13:00 -0500, Grinder <grinder(a)no.spam.maam.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On 4/8/2010 4:32 PM, Steve Giannoni wrote:
>>> No "events" preceded onset of the problem. How to deal with the video
>>> card drivers ? ...
>>
>>If you have automatic updates, either from Windows or some other
>>facility, it can sometimes be hard to correlate a bad update with its
>>symptoms.
>>
>>- - - - - - - -
>>
>>As far as video card drivers, I would find the current set for your
>>chipset and operating system from the chipset manufacturer. For
>>instance, if you have a Radeon HD 4350 from Gigabyte, I would get the
>>drivers from ATi instead of Gigabyte.
>>
>>What motherboard do you have?
>>
>>If you're using a video card (as opposed to video integrated into the
>>motherboard,) what card is it?
>>
>>What operating system are you running?
>>
>>- - - - - - - -
>>
>>I should also mention that this problem could also be caused by some
>>crappy IE add-in. A popular form of spyware is a shitastic IE toolbar
>>that replaces the browser's built-in search function. They're typically
>>poorly written and devoid of ethical or practical software development
>>conventions.
>>
>>Take a look at the list of toolbars available in IE. What items are in
>>there? Uninstall, if you can, any of those that aren't part of the
>>standard set.
From: Steve Giannoni on 9 Apr 2010 13:38
That did it. Thanks ...

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:17:30 -0800, "Bill Bradshaw" <bradshaw(a)gci.net>
wrote:

>This is a known problem with IE 8. I will assume you are using WinXP and
>the Windows Classic theme. Change your theme from the one you are using to
>another one. Start IE. Shut IE down and change your theme back to the one
>you want to use. Why Microsoft is unable to solve this black bar issue is
>beyond me.
From: Grinder on 9 Apr 2010 16:01
On 4/9/2010 12:17 PM, Bill Bradshaw wrote:
> This is a known problem with IE 8. I will assume you are using WinXP and
> the Windows Classic theme. Change your theme from the one you are using to
> another one. Start IE. Shut IE down and change your theme back to the one
> you want to use. Why Microsoft is unable to solve this black bar issue is
> beyond me.

Good catch.

From: Strobe on 9 Apr 2010 18:52
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:17:30 -0800, "Bill Bradshaw" <bradshaw(a)gci.net> wrote:

>This is a known problem with IE 8. I will assume you are using WinXP and
>the Windows Classic theme. Change your theme from the one you are using to
>another one. Start IE. Shut IE down and change your theme back to the one
>you want to use. Why Microsoft is unable to solve this black bar issue is
>beyond me.

Thanks for that info, I also was having the same problem.
It nagged a bit, but I lived with it since I only ever use that IE for
MS Updates and it was already set to go directly to the update page.

Oddly, it only affected one of the 3 PCs here.
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