Buggy Video Behavior, WinXP Preview
Recently, I put together a new primary workstation. Everything works great: motherboard, processor, hard drives, memory. The Video Card works well also, except for one slight annoyance. I may be wrong, but it appears as though the latest release of the nVidia GeForce drivers, along with WinXP - causes a flicker when some video content is previewed.
I call this area of a typical Explorer window the "Preview Pane" - though Windows XP itself seems to consider this some sort of "common tasks" pane. I'm sure there's a more correct term for this area that I'm not aware of.
It took me a while to figure out the correlation, but it appears to be isolated to the tiny video window that appears in this pane of an explorer window. When a video file is selected, Windows attempts to collect a still frame from this video file. This apparently triggers some sort of action in the video drivers.
I thought video would speak more than words, here's a clip of the behavior I'm describing...
As you can see, once I disable the feature altogether by Right Clicking on My Computer, selecting Properties, selecting the Advanced tab, selecting the Performance settings button, and finally de-selecting the Use common tasks option near the bottom of the list - the problem disappears.
I'm certain this only happens when two monitors (LCD - dual display) are used with a video card.
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