Left Side of Start Menu Goes Black

Pterocarpous

Hello All
This is an F.Y.I. and an invitation to contribute if you have more info. re: this bug.

I have been seeing on various systems for some time now, an intermittent problem where the left side of the START MENU will go black rendering access to any of the items on the START MENU inaccessible w/out right-clicking on them and selecting OPEN.

I did some poking around on the I'net and found that others have discovered the culprit is their Logitech Quickcam drivers. I thought back to each of the systems I've seen this on and the ones I can remember do indeed have Logitech Quickcams installed.

One poor sole puzzled out a work-around through trial and error. If you're one to custom configure your START MENUS as I am, you'll need to set CONTROL PANEL (in the START MENU PROPERTIES>START MENU>CUSTOMIZE>ADVANCED TAB>START MENU ITEMS>CONTROL PANEL) to DISPLAY AS LINK rather than DISPLAY AS MENU. I've already done this on two of the systems I know have this issue. We'll see if it cures the problem.

Thrax

I've been having this <i>exact same problem</i> and it's been driving me <i>friggin' nuts</i> trying to theorize as to what it might be. It's been doing it to me <i>without</i> my quickcam installed, however.

We'll see if this works.

Pterocarpous

Thrax wrote:

I've been having this <i>exact same problem</i> and it's been driving me <i>friggin' nuts</i> trying to theorize as to what it might be. It's been doing it to me <i>without</i> my quickcam installed, however.
We'll see if this works.

Me, too! (the nuts part ). Maybe it's an issue w/ HW that have applets in Control Panel in general.... Please, do let us know if this works for you. I'm all ears... errr... so t' speak...