re: Problem with Alt-Tab task switcher
Monday, July 7, 2008 at 4:53 am
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed Graham
(4 messages posted)
PS (Two minutes later): I think the "Access Denied" message was actually caused by
McAfee running whilst I was trying to disable it -- the three McAfee services did
restart after rebooting (even though their tick-boxes are still blank), so that probably
explains that.
On Monday, July 7, 2008 at 4:38 am, Ed Graham wrote:
>Thanks very much for the response, Apple; apologies for the delay in replying.
I
>think you must be right when you say that something is interfering with or refreshing
>the screen; I've now seen that tool-tips and other fly-outs are similarly disappearing
>after a split second, so it looks like something low-level has been affected, although
>I can't think how.
>
>I took your advice and disabled all non-Microsoft services on start-up ... but sadly
>the ALT-Tab problem is still there when I open a few applications. I also noticed
>a message from msconfig (when I was disabling the services, before the reboot) that
>said "Access denied", telling me I didn't have the requisite system privileges for
>one of the services, even though I am an Administrator; when looking back through
>the list of services, however, all were unchecked (and none of them appeared to
run),
>so I'm not sure what I was denied access to ... is it starting to sound like malware
>of some kind?
>
>Any further advice gratefully received, and thanks again for your response.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ed
>
>
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