labview windows acting strange

[kcoste]

Hi, I am runnign Labview 8.6 on a Windows XP machine. Have been for a while now with no problems. Suddenly tonight, whenever I click on an icon or a pront panel object it begins to flicker and slide to the right. If I click on the background (ie de-select the object) it will stop. But when I pick something else it does the same thing. Also noticed that when I try to go to options/advanced, the drop down menu goes haywire and jumps from menu to menu over and over again.

Any idea what could do this? Does it sound like  avirus or just corrupted LV? Will re-install LV help and is there a way to do this without losing all my customized menus?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Keith

[P@Anand]

I dont think it is due to LV problem try restarting your machine or check your mouse function. Try with your keyboard to access the Menu bar.

[Michael_Munroe]

This sounds very similar to another issue discussed recently in many circles.  When you double click or control-double click on a subvi to open it, the window opens then suddenly disappears.  The windows now displayed is none of the 3 windows you expect to see, but another window from your application.  Sometimes a few seconds later it changes again.  This has been seen on both LV 8.6 and 2009 and on XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Possible causes might be slow cpu, to many running processes, not enough memory, or memory has become too fragmented.  Try rebooting and then keep the task manager open so you can see it in the system tray.  Your issue may also be related to your graphics card, since flickering sounds more like a hardware problem.

[kcoste]

I restarted and it kept happening. I checked task manager and couldn't see any issues. I shut down, pulled power and then rebooted and it seemed to fix the issue. I did note that I had CAD software, labview, and multiple browsers all running, so the memory issue might be at work here

thanks