Help - my bottom toolbar has gone blurry!

[AgentProvocateur]

The icons are OK, but where it covers text, it's like reading it through an opaque window. And I can't get to the down arrow on the RHS. Help!

The bottom toolbar on what? The desktop? The piece of software that you're running (i.e. a web browser?)?

Can you give some more details on your computer? What Operating System has it got (Windows 7? Windows Vista? Mac OS X?)?

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Give a bit more information and someone should be able to help you out.

Thanks. Tried turning it on and off again and it's still the same. I'm using a laptop, and running IE on Windows 7.

So it's the bottom bar of Internet Explorer that's gone blurry?

Or the bottom bar of Windows itself?

It's the taskbar on IE, I think.

Is it only IE that does this? Do other programs do it?

It sounds like it's something to do with Transparency. Do you normally have that turned on?

Does you Windows look anything like this:
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I know it's small but can you see how the text that appears behind the windows can be seen but blurry? As if through misty glass?

What you could try is to change the visual theme of Windows and see if that knocks things straight. Right click on the desk top and select "Personalize". Not the currently selected "theme" and try changing to another one and then change back to the one that it should be.

Sorry, the image should have been:
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Thanks so much - that seems to have done the trick. No idea what happened, but the task bar is now only appearing when I hover over it, and my arrow has returned.

I really appreciate your help.

Glad that it's sorted, sorry that it took a few questions but there are just so many things that it could have been it needed to be clarified a bit first.

I've no idea what happened either, but Windows can be visually quite glitchy and doing that sort of thing (turning on and off certain appearance/visual settings) can help flush things through the system and get the right.