I just reinstalled Vista and MC12 (latest version) and I'm getting this strange problem I never had before on my previous install. I first noticed that while Media Center was open, even minimized, and not playing anything, the transparent frame of my Vista dialog boxes, including my not-fully-maximized browser window, would flicker every second or so. It resembles what happens when Vista begins going into the basic theme because of some incompatible program. Once I close MC it stops immediately. I tried opening and playing some music in WMP but had no flicker. No other program seems to be replicating this, so I don't think it's a Vista issue. The flicker isn't just visual either. It interferes with scrolling. While I've got the scroll tab grabbed the frame flickers and I lose my "grip". I also can't bring up ANY menus in MC, right click or otherwise, for more than a second without them closing themselves. I have to race to my selection. If what I want is on a branch, like Rename files from properties, then I just can't get there fast enough.
Has anyone else experience this or know the cause?
EDIT: I just noticed that if I just open Media Center it doesn't happen immediately. It takes about 10 seconds to begin. I also just noticed that I'm having the same menu problem with Firefox that I'm having within MC. If I maximise it gets rid of the noticable flicker on the frame, but the menus, right click and otherwise, still close after a second.
EDIT: OK now it has stopped. I was able to change the visualisation in the display box, which was impossible a few minutes ago. I know I didn't do anything to fix it, and I have rebooted since it started so it's not exclusive to this session so does anyone know what the problem is? I even reinstalled MC one time since it started happening. I'm not too confident that it's over with.