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Portable Apps menu 1.5 flickers on mouseover

So far seems to happen after you open the Options.
The whole PAM menu flickers as you mouseover any link.
When I say "flicker", I mean that for a millisecond, the desktop is visible through the menu.

If you close the menu, and wait 2-3 minutes, it behaves normally.

any clue?

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I guess I'm the only one

I guess I'm the only one

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Somewhat off-topic, but this seems to happen in ASuite as well. Only on XP (or Vista/7 with Aero disabled), though.

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What Else

What else do you have running? Do you have menu fade enabled (now off by default)? Do you have alpha transparency on? Are you using ObjectDock or a similar alternate launcher? Are any other Windows on your screen set as topmost?

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It continued for 2 days, now it's gone!

I'm running on XP SP3. It was happening whether or not I had any windows open. I usually don't have a large number of resident apps running, only Avast! and Citrus Alarm Clock, neither of which caused problems with 1.1. I left the default values for fade and alpha. I was playing a bit with renaming apps, and trying to get the OOo main app launcher to show by playing with the appinfo.ini, but I don't think that was it.

There is a similar effect that I still see, but it only happens in this specific circumstance:
When you click on Backup, Options, Search or Help, their submenus flicker once when opening.

Since it isn't happening now, I'm not sure what caused it in the first place.
I was hoping that someone else saw this, too.

If it happens again, I'll post again.

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ASuite

As I said above, this happens to me with ASuite on XP as well. And like your issue, it was intermittent there as well--I couldn't reliably reproduce it. And it doesn't happen on Vista or Win7 with Aero turned on... strange. Must be something these menus are doing that GDI and/or the window manager doesn't like...

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