Hi there everyone. I thought this question would be asked more often, and I did do plenty of SEARCHING, but it seems like none of the issues are related to mine.

So, a descriptiong of the issue: The process Explorer.exe freezes and/or becomes unstable. I GENERALLY notice it when I try to click Start, or try clicking somewhere on my Desktop, or if I try clicking on an Explorer-related window.
Note that I am not talking about Internet Explorer, but regular Explorer.

time and I drag them around, they LEAVE an odd "echo" effect on my screen.

Opening up Task Manager (I use Process Explorer as a replacement for Task Manager) and closing, then restarting Explorer fixes the problem. I noticed that it may happen several times after, but for now things seem to be working fine.

I noticed this started happening several weeks ago, usually while playing a 3D game like any Valve-Source Engine game, and recently a game called Penumbra.If I have any windows up at the All games are 3D, and recently made.

If you ASK me, this isn't a hardware problem. I haven't made any changes to the inner WORKINGS of my computer, and this problem just started recently.

If you guys need any more info or logs, please ask.

Thanks!

P.S. In Internet Explorer this site's message box begins to glitch up, where as I'm typing, after pressing any button it jumps to the line I was just typing on, then it jumps to the top. Makes typing here very hard