A balloon tip is stuck/frozen on my screen and it overlaps every other graphical element. How can this be removed without rebooting?
You can see the graphical glitch on the following screen. Actually it's only the shade of the balloon tip:
Related thread, but does not solve my issue:
Menu select item stuck on screen after context or command menu has closed
You can see the graphical glitch on the following screen. How can this be removed without rebooting?
To correct a graphical glitch on the Windows desktop that a reboot of the machine typically resolves, you can just use Taskkill to kill Explorer.exe from running in memory, and then start a new instance of Explorer.exe—you can do both of these operations from an elevated command prompt with Windows 7 (see below example).
Run these from an elevated Run As Administrator command prompt and be sure to press Enter after each command.
:::: This kills explorer.exe from running in memory
TASKKILL /F /IM "Explorer.exe"
:::: This restarts a new instance of Explorer.exe in memory
Explorer.exe
