Occasionally I am finding that all the windows on the computer start endlessly redrawing. Text in the active window flickers, firefox starts to lag to hell.

Last time it was volume control causing it, before that it was computer management, Before that something to do with one of the firefox profiles.

I am still seeing occasional total redraws happen when just using the computer. I think this is the source of the firefox not responding problems since it seems hardest hit (well it and outlook) when they have to redraw.

So is there any way to find what is causing the redraws, or even better is there a way to eliminate them altogether.

Not running aero since I cant really spare the gig and a bit that it ends up making dwm take, and have tried killing off dwm.exe as suggested in other places, but still see things redrawing every 10 seconds or so, not the constant that it was before but still enough to make the machine pretty close to unusable.

As expected with more windows open it makes the effect worse so I am trying to miminize apps, but even with just about 9 windows not minimized there is a noticiable 2-3 keystroke lag when it happens.

I am assuming that there is someway to find the source of the redraw messages, or better still just a way to block them totally.