Please keep in mind that "Never happens on my machine." is not helping anyone. If you want to allege that "It's just your machine!" please provide some insight as to why (for example: "Your anti-virus software (AVG) must be messing with explorer, try uninstalling AVG and seeing if it happens again". Under a seemingly unknown criteria, opening a folder in Vista will temporarily display the contents of an unrelated folder. It's also seemingly (because it may be illucid most of the time) rare. The unrelated folder will only be on the screen for a few hundred milliseconds, but it's long enough to get an idea of the contents of the folder; I've actually been able to hit PrtScn during one the instances this occurred. Although Windows has never been particularly great with its explorer.exe code (as evident from the abundance of YouTube videos on how to confuse it), this particular bug wasn't evident on Windows XP. I want to know the criteria, as I'm kinda worried that this bug will appear when I have a friend on my computer, or in an interview with a laptop, and it'll show a folder who's contents were not desired to be shown. Any other Vista gurus here encountered this bug, or are familiar with it? I tried Googling for it, but I'm not even sure what to use as my query.

Quote:Original post by Jarrod1937
Vista uses a lot more of the GPU to render its interface. I'm sure that what you're seeing is just a delay in the buffer refresh. So any folder you viewed previously is still in the buffer when you view the new folder, and it sometimes takes a split second to clear and refresh the contents of the buffer.

I loaded a folder containing MP3 files last night, and for good 400ms, it was displaying the contents of SystemC lab that I had completed a week ago (and to my knowledge, hadn't opened since).

This is a long shot, but do you have some kind of network drive or anything like that? I know OpenAFS screws up my system and TortoiseSVN's cache mechanism seems to eat away of my cpu cycles at random times

No network drive, but I do have a Daemon Tools installed.

Yah, but we all know it's because you rewrote Vista's source code in MSSQL. Speaking of that, I still have a spot on my MSN reserved for you, whenever you finally get around to adding me (tibian@rogers.com)!

I havn't seen or heard anything about this before, and I've never encountered it. Try to disable Aero (temporarily) and see if the bug remains?

What gfx card do you have?

Any system optimization/customization tools or plugins (such as TortoiseSVN which adds custom icons to files and folders)? Any custom themes?

Have you found any connections between the open folders? For example, does it only happen with big folders, or only when thumbnails are enabled or something like that?