andrewcowan

Hi Neil, My laptop is an Acer ASpire V3-772G and I using a desktop strected across a HP Compaq LA2205wg monitor. Both are running at their native resolutions of 1920*1080 and 1680*1050 respectively.I am running the Shadow theme and have configured my taskbar on screen-1 only. I am pretty sure that I still get the same issue when the 2nd monitor is detatched. I have set the theme to WB Default and shall let you know what happens. &nbs

Unfortunately it did not help me either. I have the latest build of W8.1 on my Acer laptop and build 140 used to crash the desktop very hour or so. The start button disappeared and if you right-clicked the desktop you got a white screen and after a minute or so Explorer restarted. Build 141 has slightly changed the behavour of the crash/recover but the effect is almost identical.

Neil, I am pretty sure that it is more to do with a problem with the Explorer process, I just wondered if anyone else had seen this problem. Windows-8 is a complete disaster for me. I have two brand new laptops, this one has endless UI problems and the other cannot use wireless. M$oft really need to ditch W8 ASAP and go back t something stable, and that actually works, rather than experimenting on their ever dwindling and suffering customers.

Since the latest patch Tuesday updates my desktop (Windows 8.1) keeps freezing and I loose most of my Start-8 icons and taskbar. If I right-click on the desktop it seems to eventaully restart the explorer desktop processes and everything is OK for a while. Has anyone else seen this? I have an Acer Asprire V3-772G laptop runing the very latest version of W8. Is it just me is the name W8 (Wait) trying to tell using something, like don't buy it wait until it's fixe