Another design glitch in Windows 8?


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Hmm. I wonder why it's not being seen more often then if it's purely a Metro IE problem. I'm not saying you're wrong, but one would think if it's a Windows or Metro IE specific issue we'd see more reports here. I think we've had only one repro so far in this thread.

the fact that it is indeed just one pixel might be why

it's one of those things that you most likely won't notice but if you notice it once you'll begin to lookout for it and notice it almost every time

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the fact that it is indeed just one pixel might be why

it's one of those things that you most likely won't notice but if you notice it once you'll begin to lookout for it and notice it almost every time

Definitely a possibility. I'll keep my eyes peeled to see if I ever spot it.

Definitely a possibility. I'll keep my eyes peeled to see if I ever spot it.

Yeah I'm curious too why others haven't seen it! I'm using the official RTM release.

Like I said, it doesn't *always* appear, so that could explain it. And yeah, it's tough to catch a small pixel like that... especially on 1920x1080 resolutions.

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OP, I am experiencing this exact same problem on my brand new surface RT. At first I freaked out and thought it was a dead pixel, but soon realized the white pixel only appeared in ie, and only occasioinally at that. If you can figure out how to reproduce it consitently please share here and/or with Microsoft so that we can get this fixed.

Nope it's not a graphics card driver issue. Fully closing IE and opening it again made it disappear. It's definitely caused by IE, seems to be extremely random that's all.

1280 x 800. Could be an ad control but I don't think southparkstudios has many third-party advertisements.

Ok, you realize it still could be a graphic card driver, or your graphics card hitting a limit where artifacts are appearing?

The entire Windows 8 UI is 3D GPU accelerated, and IE10 pushes the GPU even more shoving through additional computing and rendering through your GPU.

(Saying that you restarted IE10 and it is still appears so you know it isn't a GPU driver would be analogous to someone telling a mechanic that their car isn't the problem because it doesn't make the thumping sound when it is parked.)

I've seen something similar to it, but never in the 'chrome' of a window. Generally it's been on the site itself and was a 1px item used for tracking purposes on websites. It was present in the actual site content area though...not in the chrome.

So it must be a fairly random bug of some sort....since I still have yet to see it on my machine and I've been looking.

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Sorry to bump an old thread, but I also am seeing this same pixel in the bottom left corner. I am currently using IE10 and it is only in IE10. Every other application does not have this white pixel shown, meaning it's not a dead pixel on my screen.

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I am pretty sure it is the Metro IE because sometimes it happens to me IN THE SAME PLACE or sometimes a little bit above the back arrow. When I run any other application such as a game that uses full screen and has a black background the glitch (stuck pixel) is not present.

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