I have had this issue with two computer in the past.
I had an HP Pavilion TX1000 for a while and had the issue on the Vista OS.
Now I have an IBM Thinkpad T43 with Windows 7 32-bit installed and it has been fantastic up until just today.
I've looked through a lot of documentation on this...
desktop environment
email client
file explorer
gaming performance
graphics driver
hp pavilion
input lag
minimizerestore
radeon
software glitch
system performance
taskbar
tech support
thinkpad
troubleshooting
user experience
visual artifacts
window flickering
windows 7
windows vista