Windows graphics go on tilt during poker sessions - HELP

[r3vbr]

Usually when I multi-table, suddently all the screen goes black or white with smears.
This is not a graphics card problem because I tried with different cards.
When I go to Windows Task Manager and close explorer.exe process, and then reopen it, the problem is fixed (temporarily, until screen goes blank again).

- Is this a known problem? Does anybody else have this? I use a Dell 30" display and play lots of tables.
- Is there a fix?
- If there is no fix, can somebody teach me how to create a shortcut to "restart explorer.exe" so that I just have to click a button to fix screen and not need to CTRL+ALT+DEL, open task manager, select process. etc.
I usually miss several hands when this happens. 20$ to whoever helps me out.
thx

[LeapFrog]

Do you run PT/PAHUD?

This may work for killing a process:
Start up an instance of internet explorer and try running the following from a cmd prompt

taskkill /F /IM iexplorer.exe

If it kills it, then just make a shortcut and remove the I (so it is explorer.exe) and you should be good.

You could also make a batch file (and shortcut to it) that would kill/restart. Anyways, try kill first and we can go from there.

[r3vbr]

I run PAHUD yes
but the problem occurs even if no programs are open (just PokerStars)

[LT22]

are u running Vista?

[planB]

I started having similar problems recently.
XP - 1gb ram - gforce 7600 (256 mb)
Rebooting seems to help until the next time, suggesting a memory issue - perhaps related to the poker software (had some issues with Fulltilt where it gave me too many windows open or similar message) or other software not releasing memory properly.
If I find out the issue I will post it here.