My Windows 2000 Taskbar Sometimes Goes Light/Dark Gray -- Why?

January 30, 2004 11:39 PM

This may be a forehead-slapper, but occasionally my taskbar (Win2k) will go dim (dark grey, all icons shaded), as though I've selected it. It'll sometime revert to light grey when I'm not looking. What the heck causes this, and how do I make it go away?
posted by notsnot to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)

It could be an odd background process caused by a third-party app.

Chipset performance monitors and application accellerators tend to consume resources. In such cases, you could disable the programs from loading during startup, or reschedule them to run some other time.
posted by Smart Dalek at 11:10 AM on January 31, 2004